Some people have actually seen devil fruit, but because of its spicy taste, no one has ever cared about it. Now that so many have been planted, everyone is still a little worried about whether they can really sell it.
They don't ask for too much now, as long as the final harvest is no worse than soybeans, that's fine.
He Yunxi went to Wang Yi and talked about the purchase of chili peppers.
"The workshop has been collecting chili peppers, and now the price we give you is five cents per catty," He Yunxi said.
Chili sauce sells for ten cents per pound. She also needs to make chili sauce and add salt. It is impossible to give a high price for fresh chili peppers.
Calculating this, the profit margin of this chili sauce is a bit low.
Sure enough, the only way to make money last year was by harvesting wool from the mountains for free.
But she doesn't want to keep the price too low. If it's too low, farmers won't make money. It seems the only way is to raise the price of chili sauce.
Five cents per catty, which is about the same price as Wang Yi thought. Chili sauce costs ten cents per catty, so she can give fresh peppers five cents per catty, which is quite generous.
Seeing that he had no objection, He Yunxi continued: "It was agreed at the beginning that the pepper seedlings would not be paid, but the peppers would be sold to us."
"That's for sure." Wang Yi said, "Since you haven't come back, everyone has been looking forward to you these days and is afraid that you won't want to come back."
"How could it be? I've made a promise to everyone, and I won't break my promise." He Yunxi said, "You can send it to the workshop from now on."
"well."
He Yunxi had agreed with Li Zhigui before that they would collect five cents per catty, and Li Zhigui and the others would collect and dry the peppers in Lijia Village to make dried peppers, and later use them to make black bean sauce.
The purchase price on both sides is the same, so farmers will naturally choose to sell nearby.
There are not too many mature peppers at the moment. Those that have been planted can weigh hundreds of kilograms, and those that have been planted with few can weigh dozens of kilograms. They will mature one after another and mature over a large area. In this way, the workshop will be very busy.
I am making chopped chili peppers, busy drying the chili peppers, and grinding them into chili powder after drying.
Fortunately, the output of the soy sauce workshop has increased recently, and some people can be mobilized to make hot sauce.
The Li family doesn't have to worry, they mainly dry it in the sun to make chili powder, just dry it and put it away, and then grind it into chili powder when you use it later.
He Yunxi and Wang Yi talked and left. Wang Yi quickly went to inform the people in the village that they could pick the peppers and sell them today.
Five cents a pound!
And this is the price of fresh chili peppers, which is higher than the price of fresh soybeans. Dried soybeans only cost three or four cents per pound, while fresh ones are less than two cents.
When the villagers heard the news delivered by Wang Yi, their hearts dropped. One by one, they took baskets and went to the fields to pick the red peppers. Then they took them to the workshop to sell.
People in Wangjia Village trusted He Yunxi, so every household planted chili peppers. Everyone smiled when they saw the red chili peppers being replaced by copper plates.
Those who had planted little, saw that those who had planted a lot sent two hundred kilograms in exchange for a tael of silver. They were really envious and regretted that they had been too cautious and planted too little.
Later, Wang Yougen's family sent more than 400 kilograms and sold it for more than 2 taels of silver. The villagers' regret reached its peak.
This is only the first day, and Xiao Huang's family has made so much money. How much money will they make in this year?
Xiao Huang took the silver, with a smile on his face, and said: "We also planted earlier than you, so there are more mature ones, so we picked more today. There won't be so many later.
Already."
Everyone knows this. Xiao Huang's family started to bloom about ten days ago, five days earlier than them. But it is a fact that they grow a lot.
Widow Liu asked someone to pick them and finally sent them over. Although her land was small, she planted all the peppers, and she planted them early like Xiao Huang, so she sent a lot of them this time.
He Yunxi asked Luo Fu to weigh it, and it weighed four hundred pounds. He Yunxi directly counted the four hundred pounds for her and gave her twenty taels of silver.
Everyone was so envious when they saw Widow Liu who was completely different from last year.
Moreover, Widow Liu is already good-looking now. She used to be worn down by life and was thin and dark. In the past six months, she has been working in the workshop without exposure to wind and sun. She eats normally again and becomes beautiful again.
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She is beautiful, capable, rich, and every move she makes is confident and charming. Many people in and outside the village are interested in her.
It's a pity that she doesn't have this in mind.
With so many peppers, He Yunxi borrowed the village chief's ox cart, and the newly purchased mules from the village, plus her carriage, and sent them all to the workshop outside the city.
Seeing such trouble, Wang Yi asked: "Yunxi, will these peppers be sent here later?"
"Yes. I will collect them every five days from now on, and everyone can just sell them here." He Yunxi responded.
When the villagers returned home, He Yunxi left Widow Liu behind. She took out two candies and gave them to Widow Liu's two children and asked them to play in the workshop yard. Then she said to Widow Liu: "Aunt Liu, are you doing well this month?"
Flustered?"
Widow Liu was stunned for a moment and smiled: "I was a little panicked at first. I didn't even make fermented bean curd. Everyone below was making bean curd sticks. You asked me to go outside but I didn't go out. After a few days of worrying, I
Don’t worry anymore.”
"Why?"
"Because I believe you have an arrangement. Even if you really don't need me anymore, you will definitely make it clear to me." Widow Liu said, "If you didn't find me, then it should mean that the plan has changed. I can just wait."
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He Yunxi heard what she said and explained: "I originally planned to let you take charge of another workshop, but we may go to the capital later. If we leave, we may not come back in a short time. If you go to the workshop,
I will stay here from now on. And you said before that you wanted to follow me."
Widow Liu couldn't hold back the joy in her eyes after hearing this: "Yunxi, are you willing to take me?"
"But you have to think carefully. If you leave in the future, you may be leaving your hometown." He Yunxi said, "And I can't take you with me unconditionally. We have to sign a long-term contract. I have to sign you for fifteen years. And the conditions will be very harsh.
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Widow Liu knew that this was a rare opportunity and said without hesitation: "I am willing to follow you and I am willing to sign a long-term contract."
"You just agreed without asking about the content of this long-term contract?"
Widow Liu smiled: "With your personality, no matter how harsh the long-term contract is, you will not sell us mother and daughter. And now, I have nothing but us mother and daughter. If one day I really do something wrong to you, I'm sorry
Then I should be punished by returning to the time when I had nothing."
And she believed in herself and would not do anything against He Yunxi.
He Yunxi was very satisfied with her words, "Even so, you still have to check out this long-term appointment."
She signaled, and Luo Fu handed over the long-term contract that had been prepared to Widow Liu.