Chapter 10 - 10 Chapter 10 Selling Land at Sky-high Prices, Having Ant Group_1 (1/2)
10 Chapter 10 Selling Land at Sky-high Prices, Having Ant Group_1
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He watched for a while, then decided to get to work first.
He carried the basket of humus back to the field and then piled it up there.
These corn seedlings had all been fertilized at least once, and around the middle of next month, he would apply one more round of strong seedling fertilizer to promote the budding of flowers and boost the yield.
“Ah Niu, your farming’s not bad at all!”
Wang Furen came over, rarely initiating conversation with Qin Niu.
Normally, Wang Furen hardly paid him any mind.
Especially when he saw Qin Niu talking with his daughter, he would immediately put on a stern face and quickly call his daughter inside.
He was afraid that Qin Niu would spirit away his beautiful daughter.
“Wang Uncle flatters me!”
Qin Niu responded indifferently.
“Do you have any surplus grain at home? If not, you can come work in my field, and I’ll give you food.”
Wang Furen wouldn’t usually show this level of concern for him.
It must be that he saw the good growth of the corn Qin Niu was farming and thus had the idea to recruit him.
Any family with a bit of good land, unless they had many sons, would certainly need to hire help for farming.
Moreover, since farming was so arduous, wealthy people seldom farmed themselves; they hired others to work for them.
“Thank you for your concern, Uncle Wang, but my family still has grain.”
How could Qin Niu possibly work for someone else?
Even if he were to work, it would definitely be as a skilled laborer. For instance, like that senior farmer who earned an annual salary of thirty taels of silver, he’d be a manager.
“That fertilizer you carried back from the mountains looks good, are you selling it?”
Wang Furen, true to being a businessman, was very shrewd.
He must have been observing Qin Niu farming in secret for some time now.
Now that he saw the corn Qin Niu was farming grew so well, he had guessed it was because of the quality of the fertilizer.
“How much are you willing to pay per basket, Uncle Wang?”
Earning some money to buy an ordinary cultivation technique to practice wouldn’t be bad.
The humus was plentiful in the mountains, and Qin Niu had plenty of strength.
As long as the price was satisfactory, he would be happy to sell some to Wang Furen.
“How about five wen money per basket?”
Wang Furen was really a shrewd merchant, offering only five wen money per basket of fertilizer; he really thought Qin Niu was a naive fool.
Even the most ordinary cow dung could sell for about ten wen money per basket.
Qin Niu’s fertilizer was a high-grade mixture he had formulated himself, equivalent to modern-day chemical fertilizers.
The price definitely needed to be higher.
“Not selling.”
He didn’t even think about it, rejecting outright.
“Then how much do you want per basket?”
Wang Furen’s expression didn’t change, he even walked into the field, bent down to grab a bit of the humus Qin Niu just carried back, examined it closely, then brought it to his nose to smell.
“Considering you’re a neighbor, fifty wen a basket. If I sell to someone else, I would ask for at least sixty wen.”
Qin Niu set a price.
It was five times that of ordinary cow dung.
“You, have you gone crazy thinking about money? Fifty wen for a basket of fertilizer, who would buy that? Besides, this stuff is all over the mountain, you just have to spend some effort to carry it down.”
Wang Furen was shocked by the price.