Farming Space: The Lucky and Lovely Lady Come to Farm

Chapter 258 So much money?

 Everyone looked at Gu Fei eagerly. This price was related to their harvest.

Gu Fei thought about it and realized that there are about seven or eight kilograms of fresh chili peppers for one kilogram of dried chili peppers. Since the dried chili peppers sell for two hundred cash, it is just right to buy the fresh ones for thirty cash.

Gu Fei said: "Only thirty Wen."

Chen's eyes widened, "Thirty Wen? Isn't it too expensive?"

“I’ve only harvested four acres of land, and that’s a lot of land. How much will it cost?”

Gu Fei did the math and found out that there were only four thousand kilograms here, which worked out to one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

When Chen Shi heard this number, he couldn't speak. "No way, how can you get so much money from farming?"

 In previous years, when I grew corn and wheat at home, the annual output from one acre of land was about two to three taels of silver.

This acre of land yielded thirty taels of silver, and that was not all. Chen estimated that there were still flowers and ones that had not grown in the picked fields, and they could still harvest almost this much.

So after all, one acre of land produces fifty or sixty taels of silver.

Her family can earn a thousand taels of chili from growing all the peppers on their twenty acres of land!

 Chen shook her head, "No, you must have made a mistake."

My uncle also said: "How can there be so many? If there are really so many, then I will not be rich!"

 He is the only laborer in his family, planting three acres of chili peppers. He works in the fields day by day, fearing that he will not take good care of them.

 My aunt has a large family and cultivates seven acres of land.

My eldest uncle also knows how to settle accounts, keeping silent and doing the calculations in his own mind.

Gu Fei also suspected that he had made a mistake in his calculation, so he took out a pen and paper and counted it again. Yes, it was one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

Gu Zhang was also holding an abacus and dialing it next to him.

The last few people all came to the conclusion that that’s all, that’s right!

Gu Zhang hesitated and said: "Xiao Fei, is the price we set too high?"

Gu Fei chuckled and said, "Dad, we are an exclusive business, so I still give a reasonable price."

“Besides, regardless of how expensive it is this year, if there are more people planting it next year, it won’t be at this price, and it will probably only cost a few cents per catty.”

“In a few years, when pepper seeds are everywhere, it will cost one penny per pound, and maybe it will still be too expensive for others.”

“Think about it, chili is just a vegetable, how much does cabbage cost per pound?”

 Mr. Chen was right. Cabbage is only worth a penny per catty.

Gu Zhang nodded, "In other words, we can make a lot of money this year, and we can't expect so much more in the future."

 Gu Fei nodded vigorously.

The brother-in-law looked at his uncle and said, "Brother-in-law, please pinch me and see."

The eldest uncle followed the good example and pinched the younger uncle without hesitation. The younger uncle screamed and jumped up, "I'm not dreaming, I'm not dreaming. I can earn more than one hundred taels of silver from these three acres of land!"

 “My dear, I never thought I could earn so much money in this life!”

Gu Fei pursed his lips and smiled: "Uncle, there's no rush. We don't need so much fresh pepper right now. When the peppers are all red, pick them and dry them, and we'll sell them dried."

The eldest uncle couldn't help but said: "Then Young Master Zhu really said, how many peppers do we have, how much does he collect?"

Gu Fei nodded and added: "We can't give it all to him. We have to keep enough dried peppers for a year."

Gu Fei turned to look at Gu Zhang, "Dad, I have an idea. Although my aunt's family, my uncle's family, and our family are not worried about money right now, the village chief's family, the uncle's family, and Uncle Zhang's family, It’s still very difficult, and every household is in debt.”

"I plan to teach you how to make a snack and sell it in Ping An City. If you do it well, I estimate that I can earn one or two and a half taels of silver a day."

 (End of this chapter)