Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 191 Fooling Wu Zhongshi

Children's words are often the most difficult to face.

Li Muyun was listening to his niece talking with great interest?Unexpectedly, I slowly started talking about this and this,
He suddenly thought of his child, whom he had not seen for several days, and suddenly felt a sense of bitterness in his heart.

Unlike Liu Xiaogang, Li Muyun actually likes children, and he also loves his two children very much.

He is not a heartless person, he just can't control his own hands and has poor self-discipline.

"You guys just rest, I'm going to work."

He really couldn't continue to sit here and listen to the child talk. The more he talked, the sadder he became, so he simply went on to work.

Seeing that Li Muyun was gone, Mi Dama hurriedly got up, patted the dirt on his butt, and went to work together.

On the contrary, it made Li Muyang and Li Xiangqin a little puzzled.

"What's wrong with Sixth Brother? Why do you suddenly become so active?"

Li Muyang smiled slightly as he watched his younger brother walking towards the peach tree.

It seems that some things never worked out when I tried desperately to solve them, but I found a solution inadvertently.

Life is full of surprises and surprises.
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On June 6, only Mi Dama was left at home to look after the house.Li Muyang, Li Muyun, Li Xiangqin, and Nuan Nuan all went to the city together.

Today is the day my mother is hospitalized.

According to the doctor's advice, there is no point in staying in the hospital for too long. You can slowly recover after returning home.

The hospital environment is actually not suitable for patients like my mother to live for a long time, and it is also inconvenient to take care of her.

After discussing with her brothers and sisters, Li Muyang felt that what the doctor said made sense, and finally set the date of discharge as June 6.

Along the way, Li Muyun was uneasy.

Compared with Nuan Nuan's happiness, Li Muyun kept telling Li Muyang and Li Xiangqin not to tell their mother in advance about her family. Her mother had just recovered and she would definitely be unhappy when she heard such news, and it might affect her health.

Li Muyang agreed.

These matters are also Li Muyun's own family affairs, and he cannot interfere in every matter. As long as Li Muyun continues to work hard and settles down here, he will discuss with his eldest and second brothers whether they can Go and invite Qian Xiaoyu back.

It's common for couples to have stumbling blocks in their lives, especially in this era, when people don't have such a clear awareness of divorce, and they generally won't choose divorce unless it's absolutely necessary.

Moreover, whether it is a man or a woman, as long as they have been divorced once, it is difficult to find a decent partner in this era.

Everyone subconsciously thinks that people who get married for the second time have more or less various problems.

Relatively speaking, through the continuous development of civilization in later generations, people will be more open-minded and democratic, and will no longer regard divorced people as savage beasts.

"Brother Six, you are usually so majestic, why have you become timid now? Are you afraid that my mother will say something bad?"

Li Xiangqin is the one who doesn't pick up the pot.

Li Muyun smiled awkwardly: "There must be some considerations in this regard."

"This is not like you, Sixth Brother. You are not afraid of anything. You didn't even take anything my mother said to you in the past. How come you suddenly become obedient again?"

"Look what you are talking about? Are you still my sister? You don't speak for me, and you keep sarcastic. Have you forgotten how good my brother is to you? Do you only have your fifth brother in your eyes, and not me, the sixth brother? Brother?"

"Ah, no, no, absolutely not, I promise. You are all my good brothers."

Li Xiangqin quickly begged for mercy, but after finishing her words, she couldn't help laughing and started to giggle.This unscrupulous smile betrayed her mood and immediately made Li Muyun very angry.

"Okay, Qinqin, don't make such a fuss. I'll listen to your sixth brother later and don't tell my mother these things yet.

It's useless to say it. You just make your mother worry more. If you ask me about it later, just say that we can't handle the work in the orchard. Your sixth brother is here to help me. Do you hear me? "

"I know, I'm just joking, I'm not a fool."

"It's uncertain."

Li Muyun said next to him.

"Okay, Sixth Brother, I originally wanted to pursue you, but I didn't expect that in your heart, I am this kind of person, so forget it. I will tell my mother the first time I see her."

"Look, this is what you really think, show your tail. I'm telling you Qinqin, if you really dare to say it, then don't think about me hurting you anymore. Have you forgotten that you were raped when you were a child? When someone bullies you, who stands in front of you?”

"Haha, did something like this happen? Why can't I remember it? Oh, maybe it's because I was young at the time."

"You ungrateful person. Stop talking and don't lead my niece astray. Nuannuan, don't listen to your mother. When you grow up, you must be a conscientious person."

"whee."

Nuannuan sat on the front beam of Li Muyang's bicycle.

Although the three of them all ride bicycles, Nuannuan likes Li Muyang the most, even more than his mother.

She knew that her uncle and mother were just joking, but she didn't expect that the topic would turn to her. She just smiled and didn't answer.

I thought to myself that these adults are really childish. One by one, they don’t know how old they are, and they still say things like this. They are not as good as a child like me.

The three of them chatted and laughed and soon arrived at the Municipal People's Hospital.

When I arrived, I found that the eldest brother and sister-in-law had already arrived and were saying hello. The second brother and sister-in-law also came.

Everyone gathered together, originally going to the ward together, but as soon as they reached the door of the hospital, they saw Wu Zhongshi and Wu Xiaozhi coming out of the hospital. Seeing Li Muyang, Wu Zhongshi smiled enthusiastically: "Brother Li, come here." ”

Li Muyang wanted to say a few words and leave, but an idea suddenly came to his mind.

He asked everyone to go see their mother first, and he would come later.

"Boss Wu, I remember you said before that you were planning to change your career to making food. How is it going now?"

Wu Xiaozhi went to do other things first, and only Li Muyang and Wu Zhongshi were left in the garden.

"Well, Brother Li has a good memory. Yes, we are planning to build a food processing factory. The factory has already started to be constructed, right over Pumpkin Ridge."

Pumpkin Ridge is a town north of Qingcheng.

It is said to be called a ridge, but in fact it is not a mountain range like Yangziling, it can only be regarded as a small mound.

The soil there is very suitable for growing pumpkins, so pumpkins are abundant.

After continuous development in later generations, Pumpkin Ridge mainly grows economic pumpkins instead of ordinary grain cultivation. The profits are good, and it can be regarded as a typical teacher's school of specialty agriculture.

In addition, Pumpkin Ridge has a unique condition.

The Malian River is located in Pumpkin Ridge and is the widest river channel in the vicinity with more than 100 kilometers.

Even in the dry season, when the water in other places has dried up, there is still water available in the Pumpkin Ridge section.

Therefore, several major factories in Qingcheng in later generations were built around Pumpkin Ridge.

Including apricot meat processing plants, pepper processing plants, etc.

The largest factory among them is Wu Zhongshi's cannery.

Before 2000, due to underdeveloped logistics and poor storage methods, many fruits and vegetables could only be preserved after being cooked.

Canned food is undoubtedly the best choice.

Wu Zhongshi made a lot of money from this cannery.Li Muyang had known that Wu Zhongshi wanted to build a cannery before, but he had no other ideas at the time. Recently, as the peaches on Taoshan grew up, he began to plan how to wholesale peaches. When he saw Wu Zhongshi again, he suddenly remembered this. .

Why not wholesale the peaches directly to Wu Zhongshi.

He needs it for canning anyway.

Canned peaches are the best-selling among all canned foods.

Far more than apples, pears, lychees, etc.

The main reasons are that peaches are rich in pulp, easy to remove pits, and peaches themselves are cheap, can be obtained locally, and are easy to transport, so they are most popular.

Now it's time to see how to reach an agreement with Wu Zhongshi.

"Pumpkin Ridge is really in a good location. It's relatively close to the water, and the roads are well built and convenient for transportation... I just don't know what Mr. Wu wants to do?"

“Currently, it is tentatively designated as apricot products, apricot meat, apricot preserves, etc.

The apricots here in Qingcheng have a large temperature difference between day and night, long sunshine hours, and apricot tree planting is relatively common. After my investigation, I feel that it is a very good resource for processing apricot products.

Brother Li, if you have never been to the south, you don’t know. The apricots that are so popular here are a rarity in the south.

I also tasted their apricots when I was inspecting the market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The taste was really hard to describe. Even dogs wouldn’t eat it here..."

"Is it such an exaggeration?"

Li Muyang smiled.

In fact, he knew that Wu Zhongshi was not exaggerating.

He has lived in the south and has tasted the apricots sold in the south. Indeed, many of them are very sour and the taste is terrible.

But Xing is not small.

The main reason for this is that for apricots to be sweet, they need long sunshine hours and a large temperature difference between day and night. In the south, there are relatively many cloudy days and the temperature difference between day and night is not too large, so it is not conducive to the growth of apricots.

In the early years, there were still some apricots in the south, but later on, apricots gradually disappeared.

Maybe it was because the apricots they produced had a bad taste and had no economic benefits, so they were gradually cut down by people.

The apricots sold in the market later are all transported from the north.

However, it is a long way to transport apricots from the north to the south, and once apricots are picked from the tree, they ripen quickly, often within a day or two, and may change from green apricots to red apricots or yellow apricots.

But although the skin is yellow, the pulp inside is still unripe and sour.

This process is called covering apricot.

This is different from kiwi, mango, banana, etc. These fruits are late-ripening and will mature slowly as long as they are not damaged after being picked.

If it cannot be transported over long distances, it is destined to be unable to be promoted on a large scale.

Therefore, apricots are two completely different things in the eyes of southerners and northerners.

Northerners always try their best to tell each other that apricots are really delicious, but southerners only feel sour when they think of apricots. Most of them have never eaten truly ripe sweet apricots.

In addition, another reason why apricots are not conducive to promotion is that the taste of apricots is also unstable.

Unlike other fruits, as long as they are cultivated using the same cultivation methods and varieties, the taste of the fruits will be basically similar.

For example, apples, pears, peaches, etc.~
But the apricots on the apricot trees are all kinds of strange. A bunch of apricot trees in the same environment have different tastes.

This is also a very strange thing.

The reason why many apricots in the north are delicious is because the owners of the trees have been screened, and those unpalatable apricot trees should not be cut down.

"...So I thought, our apricots in Qingcheng are famous far and wide, so why not process apricots into food and sell them to the south.

Things are rare and valuable, so it should work. "

Wu Zhongshi was still talking enthusiastically.

Li Muyang did not immediately refute, but he also did not confirm it.

Of course he knew that apricots, even if processed into food, were not very popular and were not as popular as Wu Zhongshi said.

The only thing that stands out is not the apricot itself, but the almond milk that uses almonds as a gimmick.

Wu Zhongshi had a good idea, but he ignored the difference in taste between southerners and northerners.

The taste that northerners like may not be liked by southerners.

Just like beef ramen, although it is available all over the country, the taste of each place has actually been improved.

If it were all based on northwest taste, it would not be popular across the country.

Later facts have proved that in that era when everyone loved snacks, there was still no market for apricot products.

The apricot tree gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

After 20 years, even in other villages, apricot trees have become very rare. Often, after walking through a village, there are not even a few old apricot trees that are 30 or [-] years old.

"It's a good idea, but we still need to do market research. I heard that apricot products are rarely seen in the south. Could it be because apricots themselves are not popular in the south?"

"Well, why do you think that?"

Wu Zhongshi was stunned for a moment.

This was an angle he hadn't thought of.

"I'm just guessing. I guess the taste that people in a place like to eat should be subject to local restrictions. We may like it here, but others may not like it.

But on the other hand, if southerners don’t like to eat it, they can only sell it locally.

But why don’t locals eat ready-made apricots? "

Wu Zhongshi was stunned. He had just talked casually with Li Muyang, but he didn't expect that Li Muyang, who seemed to know nothing about these things, could actually put forward different opinions.

The key point still makes some sense.

“That’s definitely a possibility.

However, the specific result will not be known until verification.

Isn’t that just how it is in business? There is no guarantee that everything can be thought of and all investments will be returned, right? "

Li Muyang smiled, shook his head and said, "I don't think Mr. Wu can think like this. Although we don't say that we will definitely make money when doing business, we should try our best to avoid losing money if we can..."

At this time, Wu Zhongshi finally realized that something was wrong with Li Muyang.

He looked at Li Muyang meaningfully, "Brother Li, tell me what you think. I guess you want to tell me something, right?"

"I do have some ideas, but I'm just an old farmer. I don't know if my ideas are correct?"

"Just tell me, you think I can't see it, you already have an idea, don't you?
Don't worry, if I really have a point, I won't let it go to you in vain. "

(End of this chapter)