Chapter 71, Shantui
These are suitable trees for growing shiitake mushrooms.
After cutting them down, pile them up directly where there is a water source and plant mushroom seeds.
Wait until the next autumn, it will be the harvest season.
The mushrooms grown in this way maintain the rich flavor of wild mushrooms.
There are no bug eyes or other damage to the appearance of wild shiitake mushrooms, so they are also a top quality product.
But all in all, wild shiitake mushrooms taste better.
"Hello, comrade, how do you sell these mushrooms?"
Chen Guohua asked with a happy face.
For such mushrooms, you must buy a chicken and stew them to make them delicious.
"Thirty cents a pound."
The old man in the straw hat raised three fingers. The prices were ridiculously cheap.
Anyway, Chen Guohua thinks the price is quite cheap.
But this was the 50s, and the price of pork was only [-] cents per catty. In comparison, mushrooms cost [-] cents per catty, which was actually not cheap.
"Okay, please, I want all these mushrooms."
After hearing the price, Chen Guohua said immediately.
More than a month has passed since time travel.
But the types of food he eats every day are very limited, either dried radish or potatoes and cabbage.
In the cold winter months, it is extremely difficult to eat even a piece of green vegetables, even seafood or other dishes.
You can’t eat fried ginger slices with garlic, right?
Taro is also not available, and other vegetables such as yams are either too expensive or not available.
Therefore, now that mushrooms can be seen, it is naturally impossible for Chen Guohua to give up.
The old man with a straw hat was immediately overjoyed and said thank you hurriedly, moving his hands very quickly.
After weighing it, it weighed about two and a half kilograms.
It's not a lot, but for an old man, the income of seventy-five cents is already very good.
After loading the mushrooms into his basket, Chen Guohua fell in love with the hazelnuts and honey in the old man's basket.
This straw hat old man is really a treasure old man. He actually has such a good thing?
Mountain hazelnuts are definitely a good thing. If you process this stuff and fry it, it will be very fragrant.
Not to mention honey, it is very nourishing and sweet, no matter whether you give it as a gift or keep it for yourself, it is very good.
So Chen Guohua spent money to buy it without hesitation.
The price is not expensive, hazelnuts are only [-] cents per pound, and honey is relatively expensive.
Seven cents per pound.
why?
Just look at the current sugar prices on the market and you will know that honey is more expensive than brown sugar, which is not unreasonable.
Brown sugar costs [-] cents a pound, but few people buy this kind of sugar.
When she was in Majiafen, Chen Xiaoyue went to the supply and marketing cooperative of the production team to buy sugar. All she bought was Cuban sugar.
Cuban sugar costs [-] cents per pound, making it the cheapest sugar on the market.
Even so, the price is almost the same as pork.
Therefore, many people cannot afford sugar, and it is normal for honey to be more expensive than brown sugar.
In addition, the most expensive thing is sugar, which costs [-] cents per pound.
Although it is a bit outrageous, there are still many people who can afford white sugar.
However, sugar, as a strategic material, is strictly controlled. It is very difficult to buy it.
It doesn’t just mean that you have a sugar ticket, you have to apply for a sugar ticket.
Therefore, when Chen Guohua saw the honey, he naturally took it all without being weighed, the mountain hazelnuts weighed six pounds, which was not a small amount.
As for honey, there are three catties and two taels in total.
Adding these two things together, Chen Guohua paid three yuan and four cents.
After buying so many mountain products, Chen Guohua was extremely satisfied.
However, today is destined to be a harvest trip.
He probably didn't even think that the Pigeon Market would be so lively during the Spring Festival.
And there are so many mountain goods.
In fact, this is completely understandable, because during the Chinese New Year, the main focus is surprise.
Many workers need to go to work every day and are very busy.
But these days during the Spring Festival are rare rest days, so of course I have to come to Pigeon Market to change some things.
There are many families with too many children and too few laborers.
After buying the fine grains, I couldn't bear to eat them myself, so I took them to the pigeon market and exchanged them for coarse grains.
Only by replacing it with coarse grains can the family's livelihood be maintained.
Families like Chen Guohua need to replace coarse grains with fine grains.
Secondly, the patrol team is not so strict. After all, the patrol team is also a human being and has to celebrate the New Year.
Due to various reasons, combined together, this situation was formed.
Chen Guohua continued shopping and found someone selling rice again.
It doesn’t matter if you sell rice, the key thing is to sell glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice is a good thing. Whether it is glutinous rice balls or rice cakes, they are all very delicious.
For Chen Guohua, who loves southern food, it was impossible to let go of glutinous rice if he encountered it in the 50s.
Maybe it was because he had just moved to the capital not long ago and had never seen any glutinous rice tickets. Otherwise, Gao Luo would buy some and take them home.
Glutinous rice is not expensive, a little more expensive than millet, costing [-] cents per pound.
However, Chen Guohua did not have sticky rice tickets, so he could only buy them at the price of [-] cents per pound.
This is the advantage of Pigeon Market. You can buy it without a ticket.
And there is no need to show any food books or the like, which is much more convenient.
The only regret is that there is not much glutinous rice, only six kilograms.
After changing again, Chen Guohua suddenly thought of something, and during the next stroll, he found the second dealer.
"Hello, comrade, do you have any rice here that has not been processed into rice?"
When buying glutinous rice, he suddenly thought about the preservation of glutinous rice.
Generally speaking, food such as rice can be stored for about half a year to a year.
It is best to eat it within eight or nine months, otherwise the quality of the rice will decline once the expiration date is exceeded.
Until next year, although the four brothers and sisters Chen Guohua can stop buying rice, flour, grains and oils for a month or two.
But it is impossible to keep it without buying it, otherwise, people from the supply and marketing cooperative or the grain store will definitely be suspicious.
After all, at that point in time, every household has no extra food, and it is impossible to wait two or three months without buying food.
But once you go to buy food, you will still have the problem of not being able to finish it.
To put it simply, Chen Guohua has stored a month's worth of food at his home.
According to the current monthly grain share, the four brothers and sisters do not need to consume the stored grain at all.
In other words, these grain reserves will be stored until March and April next year.
At that time, the grain share will be reduced, and it will be necessary to start consuming the stored grain.
However, by that time, the grain currently in storage will have been stored for more than December.
Therefore, whether it can accommodate so much food has become a big problem.
(End of this chapter)