northernbook Chapter 158: Priceless Peach
Chapter 158: Priceless Peach
From Xia Yu, Hua Rendong learned that this encirclement and suppression operation was aimed at the big net set up by the contact person of Zhou Shoujia.
Although only one wooden warehouse was set up, the people caught five, and they also dug out more than a dozen large boxes full of small goldfish from a cellar near the river.
Zhou Shoujia felt guilty about the miners he had caught on the mountain before, so he contacted those people and wanted to transport the big boxes out of Taohuawan Brigade and hide them somewhere else.
They had wanted to act before daybreak, but after working all night, just as they were about to dig the box out from deep underground and before they could transport it away, they met a whole group of people who had come to pick dewdrops.
By the time the people picking dew had left and it was almost dawn, these people wanted to wait until the next night to transport the dew again, but they were caught before they could bury the boxes again.
The one who was hit by the peanut was Zhou Shoujia, who was on the lookout. He was hit by a bullet in the leg, and before he could even scream, he was knocked unconscious by a lightning bolt from Xia Yu.
Hua Rendeng felt that Xia Yu didn't have to open that wooden cannon. Was he just trying out the power of the wooden cannon she gave him?
From the interrogation of those people, it was found out that these little goldfish were hidden by the landlord Bai when he had a premonition of impending disaster.
What the Bai landlord's family didn't expect was that when they were working so hard to bury the treasure, they were seen by a group of young boys from Zhou Shou's family.
Later, some of the Bai landlord's family died, some fled, and now only Bai Xianglin is left, who has no idea of the existence of the treasure. Zhou Shou's group then regarded the treasure as their own.
Apart from taking some out of a box and selling it for money, the rest were kept buried in the ground. If so many people had not been captured from the mountains recently, Zhou Shou's family would not have wanted to move the treasures away for fear of them being discovered. As a result, they were accidentally discovered by Xia Yu who came to monitor Zhou Shou's family.
Xia Yu was quite disappointed with the result. He thought he had caught the spy, but this was the result?
There are so many buried treasures. If all departments were to take care of them, how could they manage them? At most, they could just hand them over to local departments.
"Erhua, although this operation is not the responsibility of our department and the credit is not great, you also did some auxiliary work, so you should have a share of the bonus!"
As he spoke, Xia Yu patted the wooden warehouse hidden at his waist. Hua Rendong now understood the purpose of his opening that wooden warehouse. This was a way for her to force herself to take some credit.
"Haha, thank you very much, leader."
Faced with such a leader who understands the bigger picture and is compassionate to his subordinates, Hua Rendong would naturally not refuse the bonus that is flying towards her. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat, right?
After such a long period of observation, it can be said that there is nothing suspicious about the Taohuawan Brigade. Whether to mine gold next is not a problem that their department needs to worry about, and Xia Yu cannot stay here any longer.
After talking about Zhou Shou's family, Xia Yu asked Hua Rendong, "Erhua, I'm going back to Beijing. Do you want to continue working here? Or will you be transferred to Beijing with me?"
Thinking of the courtyard house she had never seen before in Beijing, Hua Rendong said without hesitation: "I'll go with you!"
After this sentence was said, both of them fell silent. Although the speaker didn't mean it, it sounded a bit different.
Facing Xia Yu's raised lips, Hua Rendong coughed twice awkwardly, "I mean, I want to be transferred to Beijing City, please don't misunderstand me, leader."
Xia Yu smiled and nodded, "Yes, I know, there is no misunderstanding."
Okay, this is even more embarrassing. What's going on?
Since she was going to be transferred, she had to say goodbye to her family. Hua Rendong would see herself as the director of the Women's Federation. When she was transferred back to Beijing, she would bring her own reasons to convince the Hua family. After she and Xia Yu delivered the goods that the chef of the agency wanted, the peaches of Taohuawan Brigade were ripe.
Looking at the peaches on Taotou that were bigger than two fists, the members of the Taohuawan Brigade were all surprised.
Hua Rendong was also relieved. She had originally thought that if the peaches could not be sold, she would sell them to the Women's Federation as welfare. Now considering the quality of the peaches, no one in the team needs to worry about sales.
Purchasing staff from several supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores in the city have already arrived and are surrounding Zhou Lai Fu at the foot of the mountain. One wants 1,000 kilograms, and another wants 10,000 kilograms.
Zhou Lai Fu calculated the estimated yield. According to what the experts said when he bought the land, one acre of peach trees can produce about 3,000 kilograms of peaches, but the yield this time will definitely be far more than that. A conservative estimate is that it can reach an astonishing 5,000 kilograms.
There are more than 20 acres of peach orchards on the mountain, which means there are definitely enough peaches to meet these people's demands. The next thing to discuss is definitely the price.
In previous years, the brigade's peaches were also sent to the supply and marketing cooperative, but the price was shockingly low, only eight cents per pound. In the supply and marketing cooperative, peaches that were about the size of eggs could only be sold for ten cents per pound, and even at this price, people were not willing to buy them.
But this year is quite different. The peaches look like fairy peaches. Zhou Lai Fu has never seen such good peaches in his almost forty years of life.
Hua Rendong didn't know how much these peaches should be sold for, but Xia Yu said, "My family bought similar peaches from a department store in Jingshi before. They said they were from Su Province, and they sold for 1.2 yuan per pound. I didn't think they tasted as good as these. But our Xinshi is not like Jingshi. If it's more expensive, it may not be sold. But a pound can't be cheaper than Jingshi, right?"
The buyers were in a dilemma. They had thought that they had bought peaches from Taohuawan Brigade for eight cents in previous years, so they could sell them for ten cents more this year. But the educated youth from Beijing raised the price to one dollar and twenty cents at once. This was simply an outrageous price. How could they sell it if they bought it back?
Even if they have traveled far and wide and seen the world, they don't believe that many people are willing to spend 1.2 yuan to buy peaches.
Finally, you looked at me, I looked at you, and only two of us had the courage to offer a price of 80 cents per pound, wanting to try buying 100 pounds first.
Zhou Lai Fu was dumbfounded when he saw it. Although he thought that this price was probably just a one-time deal, but at 80 cents a pound, 100 pounds would be 80 yuan, and 200 pounds would be 160 yuan. In the past, even a whole season of peaches could not be sold at this price.
If those people buy the items back and sell them well, they might come back to buy them again in the future. If they don't sell them well, the worst that can happen is that they can just ask somewhere else.
Xia Zhiqing said that the peaches that could be sold for 1.2 yuan in Beijing were not as delicious as the peaches in their brigade, so they asked Xia Zhiqing if he could help sell them in Beijing. At most, they could just give him some benefits.
Seeing that Zhou Lai Fu looked like he was not in a hurry, the other buyers became anxious. They also wanted peaches, but they really didn't dare to decide the price.
So, the purchasing agent who was in charge took Taozi away, while the purchasing agent who was not in charge ran back to ask for instructions from his leader.
Whether to sell or not is up to the leader, and they will not be blamed for whether the supply and marketing cooperatives make a profit or a loss.