Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Although he knew that Li Long was very strict in controlling the quality of the products, when he entered the warehouse, opened a bag at random, and reached out to grab a handful of melon seeds, Bai Xiuming felt that the sunflower seeds were worth buying just by looking at the size!
Big, really big!

Big means easier to crack, which is the same as the fact that melon seeds are easier to crack after being flattened.

Not only are they big, but they are also full. There are more than a dozen melon seeds in this handful, and Bai Xiuming looked at them one by one. There is not a single shriveled seed, not a single one with worm holes, and not even a single impurity.

Is the one above too clean?

He was a little unconvinced, so he put the seeds into the bag and reached down.

Li Long handed him a stamp used by the Grain Bureau to measure grain:

"Manager Bai, use this."

Bai Xiuming took it, changed the bag, poked a hole in the bottom of the bag, then pulled it out, poured the melon seeds from the hole into his hand and looked at them carefully.

Usually impurities, especially clods of soil and stones, are heavier than melon seeds and will slowly sink to the bottom as the bag is moved.

However, there was not a single impurity in the handful of melon seeds in his hand.

It's amazing!

He tried a few more bags, and found that none of the dozens of bags randomly selected had any impurities or insect holes.

In the end, he gave up trying and peeled the melon seeds. He found that the kernels inside were also very plump and had a faint fragrance.

"How about it, Manager Bai, what grade would you give these melon seeds?"

"Special grade, absolutely special grade!" After Bai Xiuming cracked a few more melon seeds, he said clearly: "Comrade Li Long, I really didn't expect the quality of your sunflowers to be so good! I didn't really care at first. Well, if all your sunflowers are like this, then I'll charge you two yuan!"

Li Jianguo planted 30 mu of sunflowers this year. This plant is not as picky about the land as melons. When he planted it at the beginning of the year, he knew that the price would definitely not be as good as melon seeds, so he planted more.

In addition to the more than five tons of sunflower seeds from the Li family, there are also more than 700 kilograms from Liang Wenyu. Liang Wenyu and his family have less land, so they grow crops more carefully and produce a lot.

"I have nearly six tons of sunflowers here," Li Long said, "and there are still nearly twenty tons left to be brought over. I wonder if you can eat them all?"

"No, I can't collect that much." Bai Xiuming shook his head. He didn't expect Li Long to have so many sunflowers. He thought for a while and said, "I can collect at most 20 tons. The rest will be mainly for collecting melon seeds."

Twenty tons, that’s fine.

Li Long thought about it and decided to ask Dong Zhichao about the rest. It would be best if he could accept it.

Bai Xiuming went to hire a car, while Li Long went to the fourth team. The families who planted sunflowers had different acreages. Li Long calculated that in addition to his own family, there were the Lu family, the Xie family, the Tao Daqiang family, the Tao Dayong family, the Liang family, the Jia family, and the team leader Xu Chengjun's family.

There are seven families, each of them produces two tons of melon seeds, plus Li’s, that’s twenty tons.

So he went to notify each household and asked them to prepare two tons of good goods first, and then use a tractor to transport them to the county purchasing station.

"What about the remaining sunflower seeds?" Everyone who received the notice would ask Li Long.

Most of these families planted more than ten to twenty acres of sunflowers, and the yield was about two to three tons. Only Tao Daqiang and Li Long followed the farm more closely, planting thirty acres at home, but their harvest was slightly less than that of the Li family.

"Put the rest at home first, and wait for my notification to see what the other buyer is up to." Li Long said, "You can also contact them first to see if anyone wants them."

Everyone else agreed. Xu Chengjun said directly that he had contacted the dealer, and the dealer would only give him 1.1 yuan at most, and that was because the Xu family cleaned the sunflowers very cleanly. There was nothing we could do about it, so we had to wait.

When these families agreed to take the sunflower seeds to the purchasing station, Li Long had already sold the sunflower seeds from the Li and Liang families. Although they were sold together, Li Long divided them very clearly. He planned to send the money for the sunflower seeds from the Liang family after Bai Xiuming left.

Bai Xiuming checked very carefully, sifting through each bag to see the situation, and the final result was basically not beyond Li Long's expectations.

Except for two bags of sunflower seeds from Xu Chengjun's family which were rated as grade one because of some impurities and were sold at RMB 1.50, the rest were all special grade, which showed that everyone attached great importance to Li Long's opinion.

Although the money earned is not as much as last year's melon seeds, planting and harvesting sunflowers is easier than melons, so everyone is quite satisfied.

Especially Tao Daqiang, although his output is not as good as the Li family, he harvested more than four tons this year, but he sold more than four tons of sunflower seeds for more than 8,000 yuan, almost making him a millionaire!

The same goes for Tao Dayong, who planted ten acres of land and harvested more than one ton, but sold them for less than three thousand yuan. He was excited but at the same time regretted not planting enough.

After these people took the money and left, Bai Xiuming also loaded the seeds onto trucks and took them away - three trucks at a time. He had to go to Wucheng first to transport the sunflower seeds, and then come back to talk to Li Long about beating the seeds.

After all, there is still time to pick the melon seeds.

The first person in the team to start collecting melon seeds was Wang Caimi.

Yes, Wang Caimi's family planted melons this year. Although Li Long said in the team that the price of melons would definitely be low this year, he felt that he could take advantage of the time difference.

So when other families were still preparing to harvest melon seeds, he had already taken his family to the melon field to start picking melons and crushing the seeds.

I learned how to press melon seeds from Li Long. A big pot and two boards will do.

Because the melon seeds are not fully ripe, they are a little white in the middle, but this is not a big deal, as the melon seed kernel is fully grown anyway.

Wang Caimi called some people and harvested all the melons on his twenty acres of land in just three days. The melon seeds were dried all over the yard, and the melon pulps were taken back to feed the pigs.

This was discovered by Yang Laoliu when he was herding sheep. Sheep really like to eat melon vines. Wang Caimi currently has no time to plow his own fields, so he let the sheep eat them first.

Wang Caimi didn't flatten the melon seeds. He felt that it was not cost-effective. He mainly wanted to wait to dry the melon seeds as soon as possible and then sell them.

After Wang Caimi did this, other people also began to be tempted, but not many people followed him.

Two days later, after picking and drying the melon seeds, Wang Caimi took them to the Shicheng Roasted Nuts Factory to sell them.

Because they were not fully ripe, we harvested a little over two tons of melon seeds from twenty acres of land. The roasting factory gave us a low price of only one dollar and fifty cents because the seeds were not flattened and were obviously not very ripe.

Wang Caimi didn't bargain at all and sold it happily, earning more than 3,000 yuan.

After Wang Caimi came back, some people came to ask about the price. When they heard the price, they laughed at him.

"Last year, the Li family sold these melon seeds for three dollars and fifty cents. Even if you can't do any better and plant more this year and get a higher yield, the price can't be lower than two dollars, right?" someone said.

Wang Caimi just smiled and listened without refutation.

The second batch of melon seeds were collected by four companies and sold to the roasted nuts factory. However, when they got there, they found out that the roasted nuts factory no longer accepted them!
After asking, I found out that after Wang Caimi sold all the melon seeds, people from other places came to sell them, and the roasted nuts factory quickly got enough goods. This year's planned task has been exceeded, so they will not accept any more!

Now, those who were just planting melons in the team were panicking!
PS: Today I ran from Nalati around Duku to Tangbula, and then from Nileke back to Yining. I was exhausted, so the trip was a little short. I'll just watch it. I'll see if I can get back to normal tomorrow. (End of this chapter)