Chapter 243: Selling late rice seeds

After Wei Ruo left, Shi Dayou told the villagers to go back to work in the fields, while he himself carried his hoe back home.

What Duke Xu had just told him about contracting was his immediate top priority.

After returning home, Shi Dayou called several prestigious old men in the village to his home, recounted with them in detail the matter of having to cooperate with Mr. Xu, and asked for their opinions.

Several elders are very supportive of this, there is no stipulation on how much rent to pay, only half of the draw, this kind of steady income they naturally want to take.

And there was already some labor left in their village, if they could screw together and do something else, maybe we could all have a rich year this year!

The elders had explained to Shi Dayou to treat Xu Heyuu well, their village people had no other skills and camping, and they didn’t know how to deal with the city people to make money, now that someone was willing to give them a hand and give them a way to live, they must take advantage of it and cherish it.

Having received the approval of the village elders, Shi Dayou then returned a message to Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo also does not delay, after all, time waits for no one, the spring land also waits for no one, have to immediately reclaim planting.

So Wei Ruo immediately signed a relevant contractual instrument with the people of Stone Village.

On the day of the signing, Shi Dayou went to work on the piece of sand purchased by Wei Ruo with the people he had selected.

In the selection of personnel, Shi Dayou also took into account a variety of factors, the first principle is voluntary, some people’s family labor force is small, their own family’s fields are too busy, naturally, can not take care of other work.

But some families with fewer fields and fewer brothers were eager to secure this new earning opportunity.

On the basis of voluntary enrollment, Shi Dayou then works with several village elders to do some coordination: for example, if there are three enrollees in the family, one or two slots are generally given according to the family’s situation, in an effort to distribute as many slots as possible on an even basis.

However, because the situation of each family is still relatively large, it is certainly not possible to do a complete average.

Fortunately, with Shi Dayou, the village head and the village elders presiding over the situation, the villagers were quite satisfied with the final result.

And then, this part of the villagers went to the large piece of sandy land that Wei Ruo had bought and started to work: weeding, clearing rocks, turning over the soil, and applying fertilizers appropriately.

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The matter of the late rice seed Wei Ruo was put on the heart, after two days, after calculating many factors, Wei Ruo let people go to the villages stricken by the evil seedling disease to publicize that she has the late rice seed in hand, even if it is not too late to sow rice seedlings.

Upon hearing this news, the villagers rushed to Wei Ruo’s manor.

Wei Ruo’s manor outside the gate, outside the fence on the ground piled up a number of loaded with bulging sacks, at the moment there are people from the manor to move out of the sacks.

The first few villagers to arrive at the sight of those sacks eyes put out light to, they guessed that the sacks are loaded with the late rice seeds they want.

But the seven or eight tall horses and big, robust men standing next to these sacks made them afraid to go forward easily.

At this time, Wei Ruo came out from within the manor, and a few villagers couldn’t help but gather around to inquire.

“Mr. Xu, I heard that you have rice seeds here that can live even if you sow them now, is that true?” An old man carefully asked Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo looked at the old man looked a little familiar, thought for a while and remembered that it was when she went to Mrs. Xu’s farm, she persuaded the other side to change seedlings, the other side said she was cursing them.

It was also the only time Wei Ruo reminded the farmers of this matter in Wei Qingruo’s identity, and when she went to other villages later to remind others Wei Ruo used Xu Woru’s identity.

Therefore, the old man did not realize that the person in front of him was the one he had disliked and cursed that day.

However, it didn’t make any difference if you knew it or not, Wei Ruo didn’t intend to settle the score with anyone, and treated all the people who came today equally.

“It’s true.” Wei Ruo gave an affirmative answer.

A few people were overjoyed to hear an affirmative answer.

Immediately after that they revealed a tangled expression, and after hesitating for a while that old man carefully opened his mouth to ask Wei Ruo:

“Mr. Xu, could you share this rice seed with us?”

“Want rice seeds?” Wei Ruo looked at the few people in front of him.

A few people nodded their heads in a hurry.

“Rice seeds are for sale, not for free.” Wei Ruo said.

“Sell?”

The light in the eyes of several people instantly dimmed when they heard that they wanted money.

A few people looked at each other for a few moments, and then the old man continued to ask Wei Ruo about the price, “Mr. Xu, then how can I sell this rice seed?”

“Ten Wen a catty.” Wei Ruo replied.

This is the original price of these rice seeds, Wei Ruo did not deliberately raise the price, before Wei Ruo sold to the Yun Clan is also this price.

The grains used as rice seed are carefully selected for their fullness and excellent quality, and are naturally slightly more expensive than ordinary grains.

And even the ordinary grains produced from these rice seeds, after hulling, are sold at Wei Ruo’s Xu Ji Grain Shop for one hundred Wen per bucket.

However, upon hearing this reply, the faces of the few people in front of Wei Ruo changed.

“Mr. Xu, you’re selling this for too much!” The old man had an annoyed look on his face, “Husked rice is only a few cents a catty, how can you buy ten cents for your rice seeds?”

An acre of land will use three or five pounds of rice seed, the average family has three or five acres of land, the rice seed will cost more than ninety.

This cost is now a lot of farmers can not afford, these two years we have a hard time, the family is about to uncover the pot, coupled with the just died on the seedlings and spent a lot of money on them, where can still come up with so much money to buy this rice seed.

Several others chimed in:

“Yeah, Mr. Xu you’re too expensive, where do you sell such expensive rice seeds?”

“Besides, what if your rice planting doesn’t work well and you still can’t harvest this year?”

“That’s just it, you say it’s a late seed and late planting pays off, and we don’t know if that’s true.”

Wei Ruo did not slow, “If you can not afford to buy also has nothing to do, I also have a second solution, you and I signed a note, you can take away the rice seed free of charge, how much you need to take away how much, and so on the fall harvest, according to the amount of take away, five times to return on the rice on the line.”

“For example, if you take ten pounds of rice seed from me, you can just return fifty pounds of rice to me when the fall harvest comes. Of course, if I have no use for this late rice seed, and if I plant it now and it won’t be ready in time for the fall harvest, then you don’t need to pay me anything.”

Wei Ruo’s late rice seed is three pounds of seed to plant an acre of land, and Wei Ruo’s this rice seed to be two times higher than the ordinary rice they planted acreage, generally speaking, the acreage can reach about two thousand pounds, the specific value will be affected by the year’s weather, water and fertilizer, and other objective factors.

Therefore, Wei Ruo charged for fifteen pounds out of these two thousand pounds.