Chapter 211 Mom, I Don’t Spend Money

Should I buy tea fruit?

Su Qingmei thought about it all night. Reading МThe answer is: buy!

Then I must buy it. What's the point of always making wedding dresses for others? She is not doing charity.

Raising a child doesn't cost money.

Lu Xiaobao looked at his mother with a well-behaved face. I don't understand why his mother suddenly looked at him.

Fortunately, he is not sensible at this time, otherwise I have to ask, how can raising him cost money? I don't eat as much as you, I don't use as much fabric as you, and I only cover a small corner of the quilt, how can it cost money?

"Mom, eat."

Xiaobao held a shelled tea seed and fed it to Su Qingmei.

Su Qingmei scratched his little nose: "Silly son, you can't eat this. Wait until mom exchanges it for money and buys you delicious food."

After saying that, she told the mother and daughter of the Lu family and went into the house to calculate.

Should I buy raw tea fruit or tea seeds? How much does it cost per pound?

Three pounds of fruit can peel one pound of tea seeds, and one pound of seeds can produce two or three taels of oil. The current oil pressing technology is not mature, so the oil yield has to be lowered. It is estimated that it is difficult to produce three pounds of oil from ten pounds of tea seeds, but it should be no problem to produce two pounds of oil.

We have to see it in person. If the oil pressing tools are really not good, the oil yield has to be reduced.

What price should be offered for the purchase? You can't lose money to make a profit, so you might as well sleep with your son. Don't worry about that.

A pound of pork used to sell for 20 wen in Fengting Town, and fat pork for 25 wen, but now it has doubled.

A pound of fat pork can produce 6 or 7 taels of oil, which means that 50 wen can't produce one pound of oil. So how much does this tea oil cost per pound?

Ah, my head is bald. Headache!

It seems that I have to go to Renzhou.

First, I want to go to the oil mill to take a look, and second, I just happen to meet the manager of the caravan who bought their mountain products last time. Tea oil is a good thing, I don't know if he knows the value of it.

If no one knows the value of it, then she will collect a bunch of tea fruits, and will she use the oil squeezed out for bathing?

She must go there. She is good at fooling people and negotiating.

But it takes many days to go back and forth, and we can't wait for her to come back to collect it, right? We can't let the tea fruits rot on the mountain.

Collect. We must collect. If this batch can't be sold, we will store the oil for ourselves. We will fry pancakes, meatballs, cakes and other things every day.

After thinking it through, Su Qingmei called Zhongzhaizhu and Baishu.

Let Zhongzhaizhu advertise in Baijiazhai that she wants to collect tea fruits. Raw tea fruits are one cent per pound, and peeled tea seeds are four cents per pound.

Then let Baishu take a few people in the village to other villages to shout.

After repeatedly confirming with her, Zhongzhaizhu and Baishu ran away like the wind.

Raw tea fruits are one cent per pound!

A person with quick hands and feet can pick 200 to 300 kilograms of tea fruits in a day. The tea fruits are very heavy. Even a child can pick dozens of kilograms. That family... Oh, how much money does this cost!

As for Su Qing'an, she couldn't wait for others to deliver tea fruits. She immediately took Siyuan, Siyuan, and a sack of peeled tea seeds to Renzhou City.

It would take many days to go. Should I take Xiaobao with me?

After thinking for a long time, I decided to take him with me. I felt relieved when the child was under my eyes.

I led the cows in the village and hitched a cart at the village gate. The three adults and one child rushed to Renzhou City.

The governor Pei Nian didn't expect that it would be so short that he would see Siyuan and Siyuan again, and Su Qing'an and her son also came.

He was very surprised. He thought something had happened.

As soon as Xiaobao arrived at the governor's mansion, Ma took him over, and Su Qing'an and Pei Nian went to the flower hall to talk.

"You mean this black tea seed can be used to extract oil?" Pei Nian held a handful of camellia seeds in his hand, with an expression of disbelief.

Su Qingmei nodded: "Yes. But the oil yield is not high, only two kilograms of oil are produced from ten kilograms. But this tea oil is indeed a good thing..."

Su Qingmei explained the effects of tea oil. Pei Nian immediately became interested.

"It's a good thing."

"Yes. It can not only be used for cooking, but also for regulating various functions of the body. It can be taken orally or applied externally, and has certain medicinal value. But I have never seen anyone selling camellia oil before. I can't say whether it can be sold or at what price."

Pei Nian pondered for a while and said, "You just said that ten kilograms of seeds can only produce two kilograms of oil?"

"Yes, its oil yield is not high. One mu can only harvest about two thousand kilograms of fruit. Three kilograms of fruit can only peel one kilogram of seeds. So one mu of land can only produce more than one hundred kilograms of oil. So it must not be sold to ordinary people, ordinary people can't afford it."

After listening, Pei Nian immediately calculated in his mind.

After a long time, he said with some excitement: "This mu yields nearly two thousand kilograms of fruit, which is a lot of output. Now ordinary people can only get one or two taels of silver per mu of land. If a kilogram of oil sells for fifty wen or more, then the harvest of one mu of land will be more than five taels of silver. If tea trees can be planted in large quantities on the mountain..."

Why worry about Renzhou not being rich?

"Impossible."

Su Qing'an interrupted him.

"Why? Is it difficult to plant?"

Su Qing'an nodded: "It takes at least three years for this tea tree to bear fruit from planting, and at least five to seven years to produce a high yield. I can't bear it. The situation outside is serious now, and no one can wait for seven years without any output."

Pei Nian's excitement subsided when he heard it.

It takes seven years.

That's really too long. I don't even know if I'll survive.

Why bother making wedding clothes for others.

"So you want..."

Su Qingmei said, "Before, my godfather asked me to take over 28 villages, saying that I should run them well, maybe it would be a way out for the three of us. I have some ideas now. I have visited several nearby mountains, and there are wild tea trees on them. I plan to buy tea fruits in the mountains, I will pay for them, and the governor's mansion will help me connect with merchants. How about giving you and my godfather 20% each?"

Pei Nian shook his head, "20% is too much, 10% each. You did the business this time. Your godfather and I did nothing. The governor's mansion just helped you contact merchants."

Su Qingmei declined, but when she saw that he was determined, she let it go.

Pei Nian tapped the table lightly with his fingers.

Somewhat unwillingly: "It really takes seven years to grow this?"

Su Qingying said: "It takes seven years to get a good yield. I just said that one mu can produce more than 100 kilograms of oil, and it will probably take about seven years to reach this amount. It will bear fruit in three years."

Pei Nian felt a little melancholy after hearing this. If it was two or three years, he could wait. But seven years... it's too long.

He is now the governor of Renzhou, and he has to leave something on Pei Nian's page in the state annals. The parents of the government, the parents of the government, have to do something for the people.

It's only seven years, and I don't know who I'm doing this for.

He sighed: "If it's like farming, it would be great if we can harvest it in half a year or a year if we plant this year. Then my Renzhou will be rich and strong, and the people will live a rich life."

Su Qingying looked at him steadily after hearing this.

My heart moved.