章 10: Chapter 10: Start Selling Fragrance Pouches
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This is the downside of catching wild crayfish, it's extremely unstable.
You never know when you won't be able to catch even a single crayfish.
Liang Bin hesitated, "Xiao Xian, your foresight surpasses ours, and it's right to prepare for a rainy day. It's just that we are completely in the dark about crayfish farming; we don't have any experience at all."
Working hard on two mu of rice paddies for a whole year barely earns a few dollars, which is nothing compared to what Liang Jingxian makes in a single day selling crayfish.
Even if it's lying fallow, it's not a big problem. If the son wants to use it, then let him use it.
In the past few days, the money Liang Jingxian earned exceeded what they had saved over several years, which had completely overturned their values.
The ponds in Huang Liang Village aren't big, and contracting them for fish farming poses logistical difficulties and higher costs, so they're left unused. Even if Liang Jingxian were to contract them, it wouldn't cost much.
Luo Xiaofen said worriedly, "Xiao Xian, crayfish farming also requires quite a bit of money, right? I think it might be better to do like Old Xu in Jinghong Village and buy crayfish instead. That way, we can even negotiate the price."
Liang Jingxian explained, "I've done some calculations. The cost of farming crayfish is about five to six thousand yuan per mu, and in the following years, the cost will decrease progressively. This is a sustainable path.
"Buying crayfish is also an option, and of course, I would purchase them if someone is selling. However, that is too passive.
"If I really open a store in the county town, it's inevitable that I would farm my own crayfish.
"Fortunately, there's no rush for now. I'll wait and see. If there's a shortage of crayfish, I'll go and buy. As long as I'm willing to pay, even if the price is a bit higher, I can still get them."
Liang Bin agreed deeply, "Right, I can take advantage of the current lull in farm work to learn about crayfish farming. Son, I support you. Go ahead and do it."
In fact, Liang Jingxian had another, deeper level of thought. If his parents' thinking was at the first level, which is to make money, then his thinking was much higher, at the third level.
The second level was about making big money, and the third level was about thinking how to lead the villagers to prosperity together.
If he had proposed crayfish farming some time ago, his parents would surely have refused, but now that he had earned some money, they believed in him.
Similarly, if he now asked the villagers to start crayfish farming, would they agree?
Not everyone has such courage. After all, the cost is too high.
However, if his parents made money from farming, the villagers wouldn't need convincing; they would naturally follow suit.
By relying solely on farming, Huang Liang Village would never escape poverty.
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That very night, Liang Jingxian took his parents to the bus station to sell crayfish once, to familiarize them with the environment and to let the customers recognize the sellers, so when the regulars came, they wouldn't refuse to buy just because Liang Jingxian wasn't the one manning the stall.
At the same time, the fragrance pouches Liang Jingxian had prepared for a long time also went on sale.
His parents weren't too busy lately, and could come to the stall at night. While selling crayfish, they could also sell these fragrance pouches.
The fragrance pouches were priced at ten yuan each, and that night, only three were sold, but Luo Xiaofen was overjoyed regardless.
The cost of the fragrance pouches was actually not high.
The fabric used was just plain, cheap material, and hand sewn, averaging only around ten cents per pouch. The only expensive part was the bit of fragrance that Liang Jingxian added to make the pouches smell better, but even then the cost spread out per pouch was less than one yuan, making the total cost of each fragrance pouch just two yuan.
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Selling three means a net profit of twenty-four yuan.
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In the summer, there are always those people around who are especially liked by mosquitoes.
When a group of people is together, the mosquitoes seem to target and bite them specifically.
The girls in Chen Rong's family, starting with her mother, followed by her sisters, are exactly this kind of mosquito-attracting presence.
And she was the most attractive of them all.
Even in the winter, she would often get bitten by mosquitoes.
Regarding this, she really had no words to express her suffering.
Chen Rong also came from Xiuyue Mountain, but she had always been working in Zhiyun County town. Recently, there was some family business that required her to go home.
At the bus station, she saw Liang Jingxian's family selling crayfish. Their stall was crowded and business was booming. They were also selling fragrance pouches, claiming they could repel mosquitoes and insects. Thinking about how the rural areas were full of mosquitoes, and ten yuan wasn't expensive, she bought one and casually tucked it into her pocket.
At night when she went to bed, she made a point to burn two coils of mosquito repellent, one on each side, before she fell asleep.
"Wow..." The next morning, Chen Rong stretched lazily, feeling refreshed, "So comfortable, I haven't slept so soundly in a long time, and I wasn't even bitten by mosquitoes last night..."
She initially thought it was because she had lit two coils of mosquito repellent. But when she got up, she found to her astonishment that both coils had not been properly lit; only a small section had burnt before they had fallen to the ground and extinguished.
"Not... not because of the mosquito coils?"
"Have the mosquitoes decreased in our countryside?"
While Chen Rong was still astonished, her younger sister walked into the room to fetch something, scratching herself while complaining, "Ah, this countryside is really not fit for people to stay, with too many mosquitoes. Even burning mosquito coils is useless. Last night, I was feeding the mosquitoes. I'm going back to the city today; I can't stay at home anymore. It's unbearable."
"What? Are there many mosquitoes? How come I wasn't bitten by mosquitoes last night?" Chen Rong asked in surprise.
"No way, second sister, you're the one in our family who attracts mosquitoes the most. Could you really have not been bitten?" Her younger sister curiously looked at Chen Rong.
"Yeah, I slept so well last night. I feel like I haven't slept so well in many years." Chen Rong was also somewhat baffled and lost. Her gaze wandered around the room and then suddenly she remembered something.
"Could it be this fragrance pouch?"
Chen Rong immediately took out the fragrance pouch she had bought the night before from her pocket.
"What is this fragrance pouch? The packaging is really ugly, isn't it? But it does smell pretty good." Her younger sister approached and took a look.
"I bought it yesterday at a stall selling crayfish next to the bus station. They said it could keep away mosquitoes and insects. I just wanted to give it a try, and I didn't expect it to work so well." A look of pleasant surprise appeared on Chen Rong's face.
Lately, she had been under quite a bit of work pressure, and combined with her constant mosquito attraction, she had some sleep issues. It seemed that this fragrance pouch also had a sleep-aid function. The ten yuan was well spent indeed.
"If it's really that effective, second sister, buy one for me too. It doesn't matter if the packaging is ugly; I'll just change it myself."
During the day, there are some flies that fly around, but today, Chen Rong noticed that the flies were avoiding her completely.
"This fragrance pouch... really damn effective... I don't know how long this fragrance pouch will last. Should I stock up on a few? And for dad, mom, older sister, younger sister, I should buy a few for them too..."
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