Everyone looked at Gu Fei eagerly. This price was related to their harvest.
Gu Fei thought about it and found that there were about seven or eight kilograms of fresh chili peppers to one kilogram of dried chili peppers. Since the dried chili peppers sold for two hundred cents, it was just right to buy the fresh chili peppers for thirty cents.
Gu Fei said: "Only thirty coins."
Mrs. Chen's eyes widened, "Thirty coins? Isn't it too expensive?"
"I've only picked four acres of land, and that's so much. How much will it cost?" Ah!"
Gu Fei did the math, it's only four thousand kilograms, which works out to one hundred and twenty taels of silver.
When Chen Shi heard this number, he couldn't speak, "No way, how can you earn so much money from farming?"
In previous years, when I grew corn and wheat at home, the annual output of one acre of land was only two or three taels. About silver.
This acre of land yielded thirty taels of silver, and that wasn't all. Chen estimated that there were still blooming and ungrown ones in the harvested fields, and he could still harvest almost this much.
After all, one acre of land produces fifty or sixty taels of silver.
If she grows all the peppers on her twenty acres of land, wouldn't she be able to earn a thousand taels of silver!
Mr. Chen shook his head, "No, you must have made a mistake."
The 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, and he cultivates three acres of land. He soaked the peppers in the ground day by day, fearing that he would not take good care of them.
My aunt has a large family and farms seven acres of land.
My eldest uncle also knows how to settle accounts, keeping silent and doing the calculations in his mind.
Gu Fei also suspected that she had made a mistake in her calculation, so she took out a pen and paper and calculated 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.
In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that that's all, yes!
Gu Zhang hesitated and said, "Xiao Fei, is the price we set too high?"
Gu Fei chuckled, "Dad, we are an exclusive business, so this is a conscience price."
"Besides, don't look at the sales this year. " It's expensive. If there are more people planting it next year, it won't be at this price, and it will probably be sold for a few cents per pound."
"In a few years, when the pepper seeds are everywhere, it will cost a penny ." One pound, maybe it's too expensive."
"Think about it, chili is just a vegetable, how much does cabbage cost per pound?"
Mrs. Chen was right, cabbage is only a penny per pound.
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 younger uncle looked at the older uncle and said, "Brother-in-law, please pinch me and see."
The older uncle followed the good example and pinched the younger uncle without hesitation. The younger uncle yelled "Ouch" and jumped up, "It's not a dream, I This is not a dream, I can earn more than one hundred taels of silver from these three acres of land!"
"My dear, I never imagined that I could earn so much money in this life!"
Gu Fei pursed her lips and smiled: "Brother-in-law, it's okay! Don't worry, we can't use so many fresh peppers 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 of our peppers he harvested . How much?"
Gu Fei nodded and said, "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 now, the village chief's family, uncle's family, and Uncle Zhang's family are still in great difficulty. Every household is in debt. "
"I plan to teach everyone. If I make some snacks and sell them in Ping'an City, if I do well, I can probably earn one or two and a half taels of silver a day."