Chapter 96: Buying Fish Fry

Like Old Man Li, there are many elderly people in Yunqiao Village.

It is no exaggeration to say that in a poor mountain village with less than thirty households like theirs, the age group of Old Man Li accounts for about one-third.

This village was not so sparsely populated from the beginning. Once upon a time, the whole village had more than two hundred households.

But with the development of the times and the increase in prices, the mountain village gradually began to lag behind. Only in the few months around the Spring Festival will it be lively.

Because everyone under the age of sixty in the village has gone out to work.

Even if the older workers over fifty or sixty are not easy to do, they are basically some more exhausting work, with an hourly wage of more than ten yuan, mostly relying on overtime pay.

But there are elderly people above, and children below who may have just started a family and started a business. Houses, cars, children's education, which one doesn't need money?

Children don't talk about supporting the elderly, their own lives are difficult.

Working is also a forced way of survival.

It is precisely because of this that even if Zhu Jun promises again and again that agricultural loans are easy to approve and the interest is extremely low. If Song Tan is sure, she can fully apply to the credit union...

Is Song Tan sure? That is naturally extremely sure.

But can she find someone?

Can't find it at all.

The situation in the ten miles and eight villages is the same. You can't just go to every village to shake these elderly people to work when doing farm work, right?

At their age, they may not show it usually, but if they are not careful, they can fall and have a big thing happen. And then involving the matter of recruiting and employing people... even if you have a fortune, you can't afford it!

As for hiring young and strong laborers from elsewhere... what price will that labor cost be synthesized into?

It's better to start from small to large, step by step. When the village develops stably, naturally there will be young people who don't want to leave their hometowns and go back.

This is not something that can be achieved overnight.

Therefore, Song Tan never mentions money when dealing with the elderly.

Song Song Sancheng chatted with Old Man Li about this year's climate, and then went to the higher fields to see if the plowing was meticulous enough. After this circle was finished, was the work finished?

No.

The excavator on the wasteland was advancing with blades, buzzing, and it was necessary to specially vacate manpower to rake the vines and saplings and branches that it shattered to one side.

Otherwise, these large amounts of leaves and branches piled into the soil cannot be decomposed in time, which is very likely to delay subsequent planting.

Zhang Zhang Yanping stood numbly in the mountain forest, looking at the work that his aunt's family specially took care of him to assign, and then looked at the rake in his hand, full of heartache.

Yes, according to his own request, he didn't go to the fields today, but went directly up the mountain.

Song Song Sancheng climbed up the hillside, took this continuous stretch into his eyes, and was full of fighting spirit.

Looking further down, that is a pond within their contracted range, blue sky and green shadows, water grass quiet.

It's just that the fish in this pond are very slippery, and it's not easy to catch them!

Song Song Sancheng instantly remembered one thing, and hurriedly took out his phone:

"Tan Tan, didn't you say to buy some fish fry back last time? Don't forget!"

Coincidentally, Song Tan was looking at the fishery!

This is a fishery in their local city. Businesses like this that do local business are based on reputation. This fishery is not large, and the fish fry are mainly common varieties.

The boss spoke local dialect very urgently and quickly:

"Is this your first time raising them? Then you can't have too many! At most, you can't exceed 1500 per mu! If you have more, you don't have experience, and you can't handle it."

He asked again: "How is the pond? How big, how deep? What kind of place? Do you plan to raise fish to sell or just raise them casually in your own pond?"

The boss's questions were all on the point. Even if Song Tan had spiritual energy to cheat, it didn't prevent her from learning more experience, so she answered one by one:

"The pond is not big, about three mu, the deep water is about three meters deep, it's in a mountain depression, surrounded by a circle of water grass."

"Mainly for our own family to eat, and we plan to sell the surplus."

The boss pondered for a while: "Is the water in your mountain depression pond impossible to drain? Fishing in winter is troublesome."

"There is no other water nearby that can be diverted. It's too hot in summer, easy to dry, and easy to get sick."

Song Tan nodded—if it were really a high-quality fish pond, even if it were a remote mountain village, not to mention one thousand, eight hundred yuan per mu would always be needed.

What is the price now?

Three hundred.

Then what are you picking? Just treat it as a reserve water source for the mountain orchard. Song Tan contracted it, one for convenience, and second, in her impression, this pond had never dried up.

That's enough.

The boss simply didn't let her look at these lively fish, but came to another place, where there were large and small partition boxes, inside which were densely packed newly born little fish.

"You don't have experience, so raise these, crucian carp, carp, grass carp, silver carp. Buy them in combination. Don't look at their common varieties, but grass carp eat grass, which can prevent the water grass by your pond from growing, otherwise, I'm afraid it will be full in a few years."

"The other three kinds of fish are matched, the water circulation of the pond is good, clean, and the fish are sturdy and delicious, not easy to get sick."

"Aren't you planning to eat them yourself? The fish pond probably hasn't been cleaned, there must be big fish inside, enough to eat for a while, just buy these water flowers now."

Water flowers?

The boss laughed: "I said you haven't raised fish. We fish farmers call these newly born little seedlings water flowers."

"If you think it's okay, I'll match them for you. Three mu of fish pond, excluding loss, buying about five thousand tails is almost enough."

Song Tan nodded: a little more or a little less, she could afford to raise them, and there was no big problem with the quantity.

Although she had done homework before, the boss's words were all honest, so she was willing to listen to the experience.

"How much?"

The boss looked uninterested: "Give thirty."

Song Tan:...

Ah, it turns out the price of water flower fish fry is so low.

The boss pointed to the fish fry on the other side: "These two-centimeter ones, the price is different, five jiao per tail, the bigger the size, the more expensive, see what kind you raise!"

Does this still need to be picked?

"I want water flowers! Come with 8000 more tails, my family has a bigger fish pond, the terrain is good, and can discharge water."

"Fine!" The boss was also happy: "I just think you are an honest girl, and I won't ask for more, give seventy-five."

Song Tan calculated in her heart, and couldn't help but laugh: It turns out the price for an honest person is only three yuan cheaper?

But thirteen thousand water flower fish fry total only seventy-five yuan, what else do you want?

She gave the money refreshingly, and then saw the boss didn't even want to give the foam box, only carrying two plastic bags:

"This bag has eight thousand tails, this bag has five thousand tails, don't worry, there are only more, not less! If you don't trust me, when you go home and have free time, count them yourself."

"If one is missing, I'll compensate you one hundred."

Song Tan laughed: "Uncle, no need!"

——————Author's Note——————

Ah, about the fatigue of the past two days, because my mom and my little cousin are at home, it's very difficult to enter the state.

But they left today, so I can update during the day tomorrow! Tomorrow six or ten thousand. It's a new week, cheer up!

Thank you everyone!

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