Not long after Gao Yuan and Guo Feng left, Chen Shan, the deputy villager of the production team... called.
"Hey, uncle." Ye Mo shouted.
"Boss Li will be here soon. Are you at home?"
"At home." Ye Mo said.
"Would you like to go there?" Chen Shan asked.
"Okay, thank you, uncle."
"Thank you for everything. We are all one family." Chen Shan smiled and said, "I'll be there right away."
Ye Mo was next to the melon field, blowing on the air conditioner for a while.
Chen Shan came over first, and while they were having a cigarette, Boss Li also came over.
Boss Li is a big fruit merchant, and the size of his company is one of the best in Huacheng.
He was the one who purchased the mangoes and pomegranates for the production team last year...
I heard from Chen Shan that Boss Li has a big business and has a large warehousing base in Huacheng. He also has his own warehouses in Chengdu, Guangdong and other regions.
Boss Li drove a dusty Volkswagen over. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary Volkswagen. If you look carefully... it was a Phaeton. From the sound, it might be a V8 engine or a W12 engine...
"Boss Li." Chen Shan shouted with a smile when he saw the visitor.
"Mr. Li." Ye Mo took out a cigarette and lit one for the two of them.
"Brother Chen, you can just call me Xiao Li. Calling me boss is a lot of pressure." Boss Li said with a smile.
"Let me introduce you to Ye Qing's son, Ye Mo." Chen Shan said, "Boss Li, Li Xuebin."
"Hello." Li Xuebin looked at Ye Mo.
"Hello."
Ye Mo also looked at him. Li Xuebin's age should be in his forties, not fifty.
After entering the melon field, Li Xuebin looked at the watermelons carefully and said, "These watermelons are pretty good."
"Two bosses came to see them just now and said that if these watermelons look the same as they look when they are ripe, they will be super melons," Ye Mo said.
Li Xuebin rubbed the stubble on his chin and nodded: "Is the watermelon not ripe yet?"
"Not yet." Ye Mo took off one, cut it open, and handed half of it to Li Xuebin.
He cut the remaining half into two pieces and handed a piece to Chen Shan: "Although it's not fully ripe, it tastes very sweet."
"It's only three or four years old." Li Xuebin said, looking at the flesh of the melon carefully.
The flesh of the melon pulp is particularly delicate, with no fiber visible...
Like Gao Yuan and the others, he also studied watermelon rinds.
"When I first started the fruit business, I was tricked by watermelons..." Li Xuebin said with a smile: "Watermelons are not easy to transport. After that, I was very careful when I started the watermelon business. When harvesting watermelons, I only accepted those with thick skins.
Or a resilient watermelon.”
This year's watermelons are already on sale, and the market is particularly good.
The small fruit merchant purchased the watermelons and sent them to the nearest wholesale market. A truck of more than ten tons of watermelons can earn at least several thousand dollars in profit. For some good watermelons, a truck can earn tens of thousands of profits...
If sent to Guangzhou, the profit would be even higher.
There are not many ripe watermelons now, and even fewer of them are of high quality.
For large fruit merchants, the toughness of the melon rind is also one of the criteria for determining whether a watermelon is good or not. A good melon rind can be transported over long distances and has a longer shelf life.
Of course, the watermelon must also taste good.
Watermelons are troublesome to transport, but there are many fruits that are troublesome to transport. Aren’t those fruits sold everywhere...
Walk around and look around.
I wandered around the melon field for more than half an hour, and then looked at cantaloupes, reticulated melons...
"... Watermelon in the greenhouse?" Li Xuebin was shocked when he saw a watermelon bigger than a big winter melon lying under the greenhouse.
The large watermelon is more than one meter long and more than half a meter high. The most important thing is the shape of the melon, which is also very smooth and round.
"Specially bred large watermelon."
"Can it be eaten?"
Ye Mo smiled and said, "I can definitely eat it."
"Last year... several watermelons with a maximum weight of more than 200 kilograms appeared in our flower city. Did you cultivate them?" Li Xuebin asked.
It is difficult to grow such a large watermelon.
Li Xuebin also saw the video of Huacheng's big watermelons on the Internet, and the appearance of those big watermelons was exactly the same as the ones here.
"Yeah." Ye Mo nodded.
"How much does one of these big watermelons cost?"
"More than 20,000 yuan." Ye Mo said: "The watermelons here are basically booked out."
"If it's not sold out and there's a cheap one, leave one for me." Li Xuebin said and walked into the greenhouse.
When the weather gets hot, the surrounding areas of the greenhouse are lifted up during the day, and some are put down at night.
After seeing the rare super-large watermelon, Li Xuebin walked aside and made a phone call. After chatting for several minutes, he came back and asked Ye Mo: "How many are the first batch of mature watermelons?"
"It should be more than fifty tons."
"I want 45 tons. I will check the goods when they are mature. If they can be packed in bulk, it will cost 5 yuan per catty. If they cannot be packed in bulk... 4.5 yuan per catty." Li Xuebin said: "Watermelon prices vary every few days, and the price varies with each market.
"
"45 tons?"
"Yeah. If it can be packed in bulk, two 45-ton trucks will be transported. If it can't be packed in bulk, transportation will be more troublesome. It's just an approximate price. What's the specific price? I'll come over and take a look when it's mature."
"Do I need to pick a melon?"
"Why do you need to pick your watermelons? They all look the same." Li Xuebin said with a smile.
Ye Mo smiled and said: "It is picked when it is seven ripe, right?"
"Seven mature and eight mature are fine." Li Xuebin said, "Anyway, it's just happened in the past few days."
Ye Mo nodded...
After seeing off Li Xuebin, Ye Mo called his father: "Dad, are you back?"
"We're back. We'll go to Hongshan Town right away." Dad said.
Ye Mo hung up the phone, drove the small excavator over, and cleared several areas next to the watermelon field.
Not long after, my father came over with a small truck, which was equipped with some light steel and a woven sunshade net.
Dig a few small holes in the ground, then stand up the light steel, and then use straps to secure the light steel...
Ye Mo wants to build several awnings to store watermelons.
The awning is very simple. It doesn't take long to build an awning covering an area of several hundred square meters.
It will get dark.
Lin Xiaomian called: "dinner is about to be served, come over quickly."
"Right away." Ye Mo hung up the phone: "Dad, come over for dinner."
Dinner at my second uncle's house today.
Their orchard is fertilized with organic fertilizer, and Lin Xiaomian and Ye Ran drive an excavator to help loosen the soil. The digging bucket is replaced with a rake claw, which simply loosens the soil on the surface, and then spreads grass seeds mixed with organic fertilizer.
Apply organic fertilizer and plant grass.
The temperature is getting hotter day by day. According to the situation in previous years, it usually starts to rain in late April, with light rain. After mid-May, the rainy season begins...
As I said before, there are advantages and disadvantages to planting grass in orchards. The main thing depends on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
The fruit trees there are not too small, but the soil fertility is very thin. Last year, a lot of organic fertilizer was given. If you want to improve the soil, prevent soil erosion, grass planting... is also a good choice. More importantly, there is grass planting in the orchard.