127: Chapter 4: Exchanging Grass for Wine_1 127: Chapter 4: Exchanging Grass for Wine_1 However, you can’t rush the process of making dicinal wine.
Now, there are a few bottles stocked in the cattle farm, so you can soak as much as you want.
But once soaked, it must sit for a few days.
Otherwise, the dicinal effects won’t seep in, and it can’t be called dicinal wine anymore.
Yan Fei estimated and decided to soak half a vat, and not with the good stuff.
He used the kind that is usually diluted with water and sold for two yuan.
Of course, he hadn’t started selling it just yet.
It hadn’t been diluted with water, it was directly turned into dicinal wine.
Before half a vat of dicinal wine was sold, Yan Fei’s dicinal wine from his cattle farm had already made a na for itself.
Villagers from several nearby villages knew about Yan Fei’s dicinal wine.
With this wine becoming famous, the other one that can treat strokes also started to sell out, as did the ten yuan dicinal wine and the regular wine, they’re now selling a lot more.
Although the two characters ‘selling alcohol’ written by Xu Xiaoyan had already been washed away by the rain and wind, the reputation of the cattle farm selling dicinal wine has spread further and business has flourished.
Moreover, selling alcohol at this cattle farm has not only gained fa for its good effect, but also for another reason.
The boss, Yan Fei, has garnered a good reputation, earning him a lot of praise.
As for the reason, it’s unspeakable.
Every ti soone praises him for it, it brings him to tears.
The common talk in the countryside: The boss who sells the wine is a very generous man.
Just look at the price of his wine.
The two dicinal wines used to treat chronic diseases are only five yuan.
The health-promoting alcohol, which people can choose to drink or not, is sold for ten yuan.
Why does he price it this way?
It’s for the patients to afford the wine.
When there’s a sick person in the family, six or seven out of ten such families are facing hardships in the village.
Not to ntion how much it costs for dical treatnt, just the exclusion of one worker in the family, let alone the extra burden of caring for the patient, could spell disaster.
Yan Fei’s action is clearly to make these struggling families afford dicinal wine.
What spirit does this embody?
It signifies benevolence and kindness.
It benefits his neighbors and helps him accumulate virtue!
The elderly love to discuss this.
In the village, whoever has a generous reputation can gain the upper hand and receive help regardless of the situation.
So many of those who buy the dicinal wine, those who are better-off, will also buy so of the ten yuan ones.
The reason being they fear this boss will lose money on the cheap wine, and what if he couldn’t keep the business afloat?
Of course, there are people who think that since the dicine that cures diseases is only five yuan, wouldn’t the one that costs ten yuan be even better?
They rush to buy it and try it out.
This matter even got Yan Fei’s grandpa to specifically co and praise him, not to ntion others!
Yan Fei was feeling frustrated: I just felt too lazy to find soone to try the dicinal wine, so I planned to sell it for a low price to test its effects and then raise the price, okay?
Now everyone is talking about it, making it awkward for to raise the price!
Fortunately, the cost of this item was relatively low for Yan Fei, even for the five yuan dicinal wine, he could earn about two yuan per catty.
But this two yuan is not much.
Even if we disregard the value of the dinosaur bones, the effort Yan Fei put in alone is worth this price.
Think about the firewood used for brewing the wine was chopped by Yan Fei, the bones and dicinal materials used for soaking the wine were processed and ground by Yan Fei himself, just to understand how hard he worked.
The trouble doesn’t end there.
Just as his reputation increased, a headache problem arose, people started to ask for credit.
That evening, all staff of the cattle farm started to discuss the matter.
Two people had co asking for credit during the day when Yan Fei was at school.
Lin Yui said he wasn’t in, so she didn’t give them credit.
However, this matter is always a big problem for rural business.
Lin Yui and Ma Chao asked, and Ma Chao rejected it right away.
When they discussed it in the evening, Ma Chao still held the sa opinion: “You can’t offer credit.
Your business has only just begun, you can’t start with this, or it will be difficult to do business later.”
Then he continued to explain in detail, “It’s not a lack of compassion, it’s just that these debts get rotten all too easily.
We’ve been selling liquor for so many years, and the reason we decided to stop is because there’s a pile of bad debts out there.
So owe three to five bucks, so owe a few dozen, so people are conscious enough to co and pay it back themselves.
But so people are truly annoying, not only do they not pay their debts, they also avoid you, even going as far as not coming to your place to buy stuff anymore.”
It seed like their family had suffered enough from this.
When they talked about it, they sounded bitterly resentful: “If you go hounding people for a few bucks, nevermind whether it’s worth the trip to get a few bucks, you’ll get a reputation for being stingy right off the bat.
But if you don’t go after them, the little bits add up, and you end up making no profit from your business.”
“Exactly!
And could you really go chasing after each family when the ti cos?” Heizi enthusiastically suggested.
Ever since he got paid and had a chat with Yan Fei one evening, he’d been noticeably more active in his work, clearly wanting to express his strong desire to stay on through his actions.
Yan Fei didn’t know what to do.
Honestly, he felt a bit bad for so of these people.
If they didn’t give credit, it would look bad.
But hearing everyone say this, he realized how serious the issue was.
He really couldn’t think of a good solution on the spot.
“Just swap it for feed!” Old Cheng smiled and suggested.
Seeing everyone’s attention on him, he smiled smugly.
“The old rural distribution points used to work this way.
Sotis when people didn’t have money to buy things, they’d exchange their grain.
We can do the sa!”
“Yeah!” Ma Chao slapped his thigh.
“We’re already buying straw feed and sorghum for distilling with cash.
Now we can just exchange our liquor for it!”
“We could even exchange grass for liquor.
Our cattle farm is only the size of a palm, and the little bit of green grass surrounding it has already been eaten by the cows.” Heizi readily suggested.
“Even households without food always have soone who can cut so grass from the roadside ditches.”
With these words ca a torrent of complaints.
Old Cheng, having nothing better to do, said that there was so green grass inside and outside the cattle farm, and that cows also needed to eat green feed.
So during the day, he would often tether the cows out to eat a few mouthfuls.
Seeing this old man with a limp, how could he and Ma Chao sit idly by?
In the end, the two of them had to take over and do the work themselves.
Being face-saving, he usually worked in obscurity when shoveling cow dung inside the farm.
Who would know what he was up to?
However, letting the cows graze outside was a different story, especially when it was near the roadside.
So usually he would hide far away from the highway, afraid of being seen by his friends while tending to the cows.
As everyone had this discussion, they imdiately found the proposal quite reliable.
Apart from Heizi’s slightly unrealistic idea of exchanging grass for liquor, the other suggestions were practical.
Whether it was grains for distilling or straw feed, everything could be stored long-term.
They could keep it for future use, given that the cattle farm was so large, they could surely make use of the items eventually.
As for why exchanging grass for liquor wouldn’t work, that was simple.
Since grass was free of charge, if given the choice between trading food for the liquor or grass for the liquor, nine out of ten households would choose to cut grass.
Not to ntion whether there was sufficient grass, even if there were, more than a dozen cows still wouldn’t finish it off.
Of course, it wasn’t completely impossible.
It’s just better not to ntion it at the mont.
First, they should find soone to cut so grass for the cows.
And when they actually encountered certain extrely impoverished households who didn’t have enough food for themselves, they could let them cut grass to exchange.
Otherwise, if too many people found out about it, it wouldn’t end well.
This could serve as both a way to procure feed and a ans of doing good deeds!
The ultimate goal was still the sa; they had to avoid giving credit at all costs.
As for how to communicate this with those families who were looking to take things on credit, Heizi would handle it.
After all, he wasn’t embarrassed or ashad to say anything and wasn’t afraid to offend anyone.
Yan Fei wasn’t afraid to tell him straight that he could only handle collecting food, not money.
He just didn’t trust him.
Although Heizi sounded dissatisfied, he was actually quite pleased with himself: this at least proved that he had so use in the cattle farm.
So, when his family tried to get him to co back ho, he’d have a justifiable reason to refuse, wouldn’t he?
Staying at the cattle farm wasn’t too bad.
Yes, it was a bit dirty and the sll was unpleasant when working, but the lifestyle was pretty laid back.
The daily food and anities were better than they were back ho.
As long as he did his job, nobody would bother him.
It was much better than being ho, where his family constantly eyed him with scorn and irritation.
With the low standard of living these days and without much of worldly distractions, there were indeed so who deliberately chose to be unambitious.
But for the majority who worked hard to make a living, what else could they wish for?
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