Chapter 13 Sugar Fried Chestnuts

This is what he wrote on the mountain this afternoon.

This is also the result of his thinking for a few days. At a young age, he has limited opportunities to make money. To improve the family's economic situation, he can only rely on his parents. But the business that parents can make money is also limited, raising pigs, and now the price of pigs is also cheap. The food to eat is the problem.

From the existing conditions, sugar-fried chestnut is a more realistic choice. When he was in elementary school, one year, chestnuts once sold for 5 yuan a pound, which was the highest price in history, and now it is at most 3 yuan. Everyone thinks it's cheap, but there's no way that farmers have a say in the price of agricultural products.

Say this thing again, he will do it.

After he started working, he would buy some from time to time when he saw fried chestnuts with sugar. It’s not that I like to eat it, mainly because I have helped my parents collect chestnuts every year since I was a child. It takes more than 10 days to start from picking chestnuts, to picking chestnuts, peeling them, and finally selling them. But in my impression, I have never eaten a meal of chestnuts at home, not even if I boiled a bowl. It is estimated that the whole village is the same. No matter how cheap they are sold, everyone is reluctant to eat them. At most, when they are peeled, those that are broken will be eaten raw.

To put it in one sentence, after he started working, he bought sugar-fried chestnuts. What he ate was not chestnuts, but the regrets of his childhood.

Just like many people still listen to the children's song "Let's Swing the Sculls" when they are adults, they are also listening to the shortcomings of their childhood. When Feng Yiping was wearing old clothes changed from his older sister's clothes and helping the adults in the family do the work, the children in the capital dressed beautifully on weekends, not far from Tiananmen Square, surrounded by green trees and red walls. Boating in the park. For this reason, Feng Yiping's family came to BJ to play, and he took his son to Beihai Park for a boat ride.

Zhang Yan likes to eat chestnuts. They are sold at the entrance of the shopping mall and at the entrance of the farmers' market. She buys it almost once a week. At that time, the sugar-fried chestnuts were sold for 16 yuan per pound. After my parents went to Guangzhou to help, especially my mother, when I saw that such a small paper bag of chestnuts cost nearly 20 yuan, I felt it was not worth it, so I said, if you like it, then I will make it.

But she didn't know how to do it. Feng Yiping checked the Internet. It was easy, there were steps, and there was a special fried sand for sale. They tried to do it a few times, and they kept adjusting the ratio of sugar and oil, and added other spices. , The enhanced version of fried chestnuts with sugar is definitely better than the ones bought outside.

What I have to do now is just to fry the original home-made one or two catties at a time, and then use a large iron pan to fry more than ten catties at a time.

Feng Yiping put forward such a suggestion, and there is another consideration.

Because my parents have always been financially poor, they are very serious about money. They can't wait to split a penny into two and spend it in half. Over time, it becomes a habit. Even if Feng Yiping made some money later, this concept could not be changed. After living together, their parents were frugal and stingy, even Feng Yiping was not used to it. That kind of savings was all-round, from food, clothing, housing, and transportation, to every aspect, a piece could be saved. What's more, Zhang Yan's family background is good since he was a child, and he is not used to it. Therefore, because of spending money, there have been many conflicts between his parents, Feng Yiping and Zhang Yan.

Feng Yiping remembered that Jia Pingwa once wrote something like this, "In my eyes, two dollars is not two dollars, it is a pile of salt."

In the eyes of parents, money is not money, it is life, spending money is killing them, and they were old at that time, and it was very difficult for them to change. This time, Feng Yiping has the confidence to do better than before. He also wants his parents to earn some money when they are still young, instead of putting money above life as before.

Feng Zhenchang read the piece of paper repeatedly and handed it to Mei Qiuping, "It's not difficult to say, the river sand is easy to say, the best shovel to pick from the river is sugar and tea oil, it's easy to buy, but I don't know if we can Make that taste."

"Also, where can I sell it? Needless to say, in the county seat, it sells for 6 yuan a pound. It is estimated that not many people buy it. I don't think it is easy in the city. There should be more people in the province, but we go to the province. I’ve never been there before, and I’m not familiar with the place of life. Also, in the province, I have to find a place to live, plus buying sugar, tea oil, and a stove. A lot." Feng Zhenchang continued.

Feng Yiping said, "I'm not saying that I have to go to the provincial capital to sell sugar-fried chestnuts. This is just a way. This is no good. Let's think about other things. My main consideration is that the big item, chestnut, is something we have. , don't need to spend money to buy it, I don't have enough at home, Brother Zhiming has a lot, you can borrow a few hundred catties and sell it to him for money, this should be no problem!"

Feng Zhenchang nodded, "It's all right, his children are young, and there are few places to use money now. We should be able to borrow some after negotiation."

"The key question at the moment is whether we can fry the chestnuts well, so what I mean is that the chestnuts will be collected at the end of this month at the latest, so don't rush to sell them, let's try frying them first, if they taste good, Then you can consider doing this. It should be no problem if you don’t have 10 pounds a day. If you do it for two months, you can buy 600 pounds, 6 yuan per pound, and the gross income is 3600. My uncle is not always in the provincial capital and asked him to rent a house for us. , the rent is 200 per month, bring your own rice, 200 per month to buy vegetables should be enough, the total cost of travel is 300, the stove, plus sugar and oil, 200 is also enough, so it will cost 1300, 600 catties of chestnuts. 1200 yuan, that is almost 1100 yuan, more than 500 yuan a month, and if done well, this business can be done for many years, 5000 yuan a year should be no problem.”

Feng Zhenchang worked as an accountant in production in the early years. "You included the 400 pounds of our family. If the 400 pounds is not money, you can earn almost 2,000 yuan in two months?"

Feng Yiping said, "If you want to do it for a long time, you still have to consider the purchase price."

Feng Zhenchang nodded, but Mei Qiuping was a little stunned. From her illness to building a house, she owed more than 3,000 foreign debts over the years. She is an impatient person and worries every day. Based on her current income, she is afraid of these debts. It will take a few years to repay, how can the son calculate this, do this well, in two months, the foreign debt can be repaid more than half?

She asked eagerly, "Yiping, did you make a mistake?"

"It can't be wrong," Feng Zhenchang said. "How could it be wrong with only a thousand yuan bill?"

"More than a thousand yuan, you said lightly," Mei Qiuping is also a temperamental person, "In the past few years, from which year to the end of the year, the family can have more than a hundred yuan left at home."

Feng Zhenchang was dumbfounded, and Feng Yiping said quickly, "Mom, it's not wrong, I'll write it down for you."

Holding the paper, "It costs 200 yuan to buy vegetables a month?" She first questioned, "This is a big meal every day!"

"Mom, this is an approximate figure. It's better to be a little more generous." Feng Yiping explained.

Mei Qiuping read it several times, "Yes, in this way, I can really earn more than 500 yuan a month, even if I earn half, more than 200 yuan a month, I am satisfied."

Feng Zhenchang was also in the mood to joke at this time, "You've made more than 200 yuan a month before the eight characters are written."

Mei Qiuping said, "Anyway, this is a way. According to Yiping, if he is admitted to university in the future, he cannot afford to rely on us to farm the land. He can only raise new debts when the old debts are not cleared. Besides, it is easy to borrow money? Since this can make money, let's try it hard!"

"According to what Yiping said, it is worth trying!" Feng Zhenchang also agreed.

He was also in trouble. He was affected by his father's status as a landlord. He didn't get married until he was 37 years old. In the village, even though he was old and respected, and everyone saw him, he was either called uncle or father, but he treated his wife's illness, and built the house he lives in, and he owed thousands of dollars, but he still hasn't paid it back all these years.

At present, the son is his pride and their hope. What the son said is also, the tuition fees are getting higher and higher every year, and the university is even worse. You can't find a solution when the situation is imminent. Now it is indeed time to make money. when. But I don't have a good way, so my son's idea is a way out.

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