Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 444: Either making money, or on the way to making money
After Gao Mingli got married, he only stayed in the village for two days before returning to the county, saying he had to go to work.

But in fact, the sugar factory was not busy at this time. As long as he wanted to take leave, he could always take two more days off.

Marriage is a big deal, and since he has Gao Guobing behind him, the factory will not make things difficult for him.

It's just that Gao Mingli didn't want to take such a long leave and stay in the village, so he returned to the county under the pretext of work.

His decision made everyone a little surprised, but it was just a surprise, because the summer vacation was approaching and Gao Mingcheng was extremely busy.

He first cleared out the inventory in the clothing store. Last year's old models would rather be discounted this year, but he would rather sell them back to get their money back. The new models are selling well, so when he goes to Yangcheng, he has to buy another batch of goods.

In this case, you must prepare the money for the purchase.

Gao Mingcheng took out a pile of clothes and said to Duomei: "Don't hang these clothes in the store. Hang them on an iron rack at the door of the store, and then put up a big-character poster saying that the store is holding an event and all of them are sold at a low price. "

The clothes he cleared out were all old models from last year, some from summer and some from winter.

When Gao Mingcheng purchased goods, although he had the vision of later generations and roughly knew which goods were easy to sell, each place had its own aesthetic. 90.00% of the goods he purchased were sold successfully, but there were always hundreds of them. Ten out of ten goods are difficult to sell.

This is inevitable. Even luxury stores have inventory that cannot be sold.

After clearing the inventory and checking the accounts, Gao Mingcheng reluctantly withdrew the payment.

At night, Xiao Xuxu was already fast asleep, and many beauties were by Gao Mingcheng's side, watching him settle accounts.

Gao Mingcheng whispered: "Duomei, I'm going to the village to shake honey tomorrow. You should work harder to sell some goods in the past two days. Although the payment for the goods is enough now, it is better to have more money with you."

Many beauties understand what Gao Mingcheng means. If Gao Mingcheng encounters any good opportunities to make money outside, he must have capital.

A poor family has a way to become rich, but this is a principle that people have always practiced.

She nodded and said, "Okay, I will try to sell as many as possible."

After settling the matter, the couple turned off the lights and went to bed.

Early the next morning, Gao Mingcheng drove his tractor to the market to buy a batch of large plastic bottles filled with honey, and then drove to Gaojiacun.

After parking the car in front of his home, Gao Mingcheng unloaded the plastic bottles from the car and moved them to the yard.

When the two dogs saw him, they jumped out of the grass in the distance and circled around him affectionately.

Gao Mingcheng stretched out his big hand and stroked the heads of the two dogs, and said with a smile: "I have something to do, and I will play with you when I have time."

He opened the kitchen door, took out the bucket, and quickly picked up a bucket of water from the well.

These freshly purchased plastic bottles may have some dust and dirt inside, and they must be cleaned and drained before they can be used to hold honey.

Honey is something that is taken into the mouth, so it is natural to pay attention to hygiene.

These bottles are the kind of thick bottles that hold liquor. There are ten-jin bottles and twenty-jin bottles. Gao Mingcheng now wholesales honey to Fan Chengyao, so he bought them all in twenty-jin bottles for easy shipping.

While he was washing bottles in the yard, Chen Duofu walked in.

Seeing the bottle hanging on the bench, he immediately said: "Mingcheng, there is honey in the beehive. Are you back to shake the honey?"

Gao Mingcheng said: "Yes, let's go to the mountains to shake honey later!"

When Chen Duofu heard this, he immediately went to the utility room to get the honey shaker.

"Then I'll bring the honey shaker over first. The beehives should be placed in the valley before." After Chen Duofu finished speaking, he took the honey shaker and took the first step.

The honey shaker must be cleaned and dried every time after shaking the honey, and then covered with a plastic sheet to prevent dust, insects and mice from entering.

So when shaking honey, you just need to use it directly.

Chen Duofu went to work in the mountains first. Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry. After washing the plastic bottles, he washed a large basin and turned it upside down on the bench to drain the water.

This big basin is for temporary storage of honey later.

The June sunshine poured down and shone in this small farmyard.A gentle breeze blows from the mountains, making the bottles and jars upside down on the benches dry as quickly as possible.

Gao Mingcheng picked up a straw hat and put it on, then walked with the two dogs toward the valley where the beehives were placed.There are flowers blooming all the way, and birds singing and flowers fragrant all the way.

The vegetation especially cherishes time and keeps growing wildly, displaying its vitality wantonly.

The green grass on the roadside was trampled mercilessly by a pair of big feet, and was forced to bear tremendous pressure. However, after the big feet left, the grass shook its body and regained its previous grace in the wind.

Gao Mingcheng came to the place where the beehives were placed and saw Chen Duofu working.

Shaking honey is also a physical job. If you do it alone, you will be very tired.

Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but smile when he saw how fast he was shaking the honey: "Okay, I'll shake the honey, and you go and cut off the wax on the honey spleen."

Chen Duofu didn't force it, and obediently handed over the honey shaker to Gao Mingcheng, while he went to the beehive to get other honeycombs.

Before shaking the honey, you need to use a knife to cut off the beeswax, so that the honey in the honey spleen can gather at the bottom of the honey shaker through centrifugal force.

Compared with Gao Mingcheng's casualness, Chen Duofu deliberately wore long sleeves and trousers, and a pair of labor protection gloves in his hands. Even his head and face were wrapped with a cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes outside.

If honey attacks him, just use your arms to cover your eyes in time.

For the entire next day, the two worked together, with Gao Mingcheng responsible for shaking the honey and Chen Duofu responsible for cutting the wax.

In this way, with the cooperation of the two, forty boxes of honey were finally shaken.

Gao Mingcheng has carried the honey shaker back and forth several times. The large basin at home is already filled with honey. Once it has settled, it is filled first, and then new honey is poured in for precipitation.

In the evening, Gao Mingcheng was still busy with these things.After most of the honey is filled, the remaining honey needs to be filtered with clean gauze to filter out all the residue.

Chen Duofu came over with a large bowl and said, "Mingcheng, let's eat first! Today my mother fried Kuxiang tofu and added a lot of minced garlic and chili. It goes very well with rice!"

When Gao Mingcheng smelled the aroma of the food, his stomach immediately growled.

The work at hand came to an end, so he took the bowl of sea and started to eat happily.

The dishes are quite ordinary, including bitter tofu, stir-fried eggplant with chili pepper, and stir-fried sweet potato.

Sweet potatoes are the young leaves of sweet potatoes. They are fried with minced garlic and have a good taste. They are a home-cooked dish in summer.

When Gao Mingcheng came back suddenly, Aunt Liu didn't prepare any meat at all.Ordinary villagers only eat meat a few times throughout the year.

Besides, if you want to eat meat, you have to wait until you go to the market to buy it.

Gao Mingcheng didn't care about this. Anyway, he had meat every day at home, and it was okay to have one or two meals without meat.

He ate very quickly, and in a short time the whole bowl of food was gone.

After handing the empty bowl to Chen Duofu, Gao Mingcheng said: "I'm going back to the county early tomorrow morning. You have to pay more attention to the beehives. Move the beehives appropriately to places with abundant honey sources so that they can be shaken more often this year." Some honey.”

Before hiring Chen Duofu, Gao Mingcheng did all these things at home alone. Even then, he still had hundreds of kilograms of honey throughout the year.

Now that Chen Duofu has been hired to manage the beehives full-time, Gao Mingcheng hopes to produce at least one hundred kilograms more honey.

This hundred pounds of honey is equivalent to the salary of hiring Chen Duofu.

Chen Duofu listened attentively, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm definitely interested. Now that the tallow trees are blooming, I'm going to move the beehives to the tallow trees in the tallow forest tomorrow evening."

Chinese tallow tree is a common tree species in Jiangxi. It is the main local honey source in summer. It blooms from early June to the end of June, with a flowering period of about 6 days. When the weather is fine, it secretes more honey, attracting a lot of honey to collect. honey.

However, tallow tree honey also has a shortcoming, that is, the quality of the honey is average, and the crystals are coarser and look like white sugar. Some people who don't understand think that it is honey shaken from feeding white sugar.

However, the tallow trees in the mountains are not in large patches, but grow randomly and naturally. In the tallow trees, there are other nectar plants. When honey is collecting nectar, it does not only pick the nectar from tallow trees. Therefore, the final honey produced is hundred-flower honey, and the quality of the honey will not be too bad.

In addition to providing a nectar source for bees when it blooms, tallow trees also produce seeds that are very useful. The seeds can be squeezed for oil. Although they are poisonous and cannot be eaten, they can be used as industrial materials, such as lamp oil or making soap.

Every year when tallow trees produce seeds, people from the village go into the mountains to pick up tallow seeds and then sell them at the market.

(End of this chapter)