Mulberry leaves without sericulture sell 8 million a year.

He buys more than 300 tons of mulberry leaves every year, but he doesn't use them for sericulture. He says these mulberry leaves are of great use. Ordinary mulberry leaves, but he treats like a baby, picking and purchasing are very strict. Mulberry leaves do not raise silkworms, but they are his money-making treasure, bringing him sales of more than 8 million yuan a year. See how Wang Jibing uses mulberry leaves to find another way to make money and pry up a new industry in Yingde City, Guangdong Province.

Shikutang Town, Yingde City, Guangdong Province, 6: 00 a.m. on April 13, 2017

In late April, when mulberry leaves in Guangdong Province were just sprouting, at 6: 00 in the morning, when the reporter came to Shigutang Town in Yingde City for an interview, Wang Jibing was taking many villagers busy picking mulberry leaves. The villagers told the reporter that they have been working here for more than two hours.

Reporter Wen Penghe: what time did you come in the morning?

Villager: I came here after 3 o'clock in the morning.

Reporter Wen Penghe: can you see it in the dark?

Villager: yes, take a flashlight and wear it on your head, you can see it.

Wang Jibing: when did you first come here?

Villager: at the earliest time, it was after 3 o'clock.

Wang Jibing: do you usually have a fixed time?

Villagers: generally not fixed, a large number of times, I am a little earlier. After a while, as soon as the sun comes, the work will be done, all of it.

Picking began at 3 o'clock in the morning because Wang Jibing asked that picking must be stopped at 9 o'clock. He told reporters that these mulberry leaves are not used for silkworm breeding. He has other important uses. These leaves are his money-making treasures, so he should be extra careful in purchasing. If after 9 o'clock picking, the leaf temperature rises and mulberry leaves change, he will not be able to use them.

Wang Jibing: these two piles of leaves, one is good leaves, the other is bad leaves, where is the bad, bad in this, there are blackened spots. This is our standard leaf, it is green.

Reporter Wen Penghe: there are no small black spots on this?

Wang Jibing: there are no small black spots. We can compare them. This one has small black spots, and this one has no small black spots. The two leaves are completely different.

Reporter Wen Penghe: how did this come about?

Wang Jibing: it's just that the temperature is too high in the bag. It's airtight.

In addition to the strict control of the picking time, what kind of leaves to pick, and even the size of the leaves, Wang Jibing has his unique requirements.

Wang Jibing: our standard is a bud head, a small tender leaf, a tender leaf with no more than four fingers. This is our standard, so this is also a relatively difficult process, after a lot of time, everyone's running-in, and then they to understand, to feel, only to this point.

To pick the leaves, it must be like this, including a bud head, two young leaves, the width of the young leaves can not exceed 7 cm, such mulberry leaves are what Wang Jibing needs.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the reporter arrived at Wang Jibing's factory from the planting base, and farmers kept coming to his factory to deliver the goods. Wang Jibing had to break up the mulberry leaves like this to facilitate ventilation. While the reporter was filming, Wang Jibing suddenly lost his temper.

Wang Jibing: rework, must rework, I have said several times, you still do this.

Villager: I never went back to work.

Wang Jibing: you didn't rework. This is big. It exceeds the standard. If you exceed the standard, you must rework. If you don't rework, I dare not accept yours.

Reporter Wen Penghe: what is it now?

Wang Jibing: her random choice has that kind of non-standard leaf. Like this one is a non-standard leaf. If you want to rework, you have to rework.

Reporter Wen Penghe: how to get back to rework?

Wang Jibing: rework is re-selection.

Reporter Wen Penghe: just pick it again.

Although it happened only occasionally, Wang Jibing still did not lower the standard, and he asked the villagers to reselect.

Reporter Wen Penghe: is it just too big?

Villager: pick the beautiful ones tomorrow and pick the good ones tomorrow.

Wang Jibing has such high requirements for mulberry leaves. What on earth is he going to do with these mulberry leaves if he accepts them for sericulture? In fact, at first, the local villagers were also very curious.

Mulberry trees are planted in almost every household in the area, and mulberry leaves have no other function except sericulture. In 2013, Wang Jibing came here to buy mulberry leaves. Driven by him, the price of mulberry leaves has been rising in recent years, now reaching more than 4 yuan per jin. Some villagers earn more than 80,000 yuan just by selling mulberry leaves from March to October every year. Because of the arrival of Wang Jibing, the villagers found new ways to make money, and some people gave up sericulture to grow mulberry and sell leaves.

Villagers: they picked 100 yuan and more than 200 yuan a day.

Reporter Wen Penghe: in this way, you have to have 4000 yuan or 5000 yuan a month, right?

Villager: more than 6000 yuan at most.

Reporter Wen Penghe: a month? Is it too much for you?

Villager: for us, it means picking more in the morning, and we don't have to start work in the afternoon. With these now, it's easy to make money anyway.

Villager: today, the leaves picked by one person must be more than 200 yuan.

Reporter Wen Penghe: is this a lot?

Villager: that's all right.

With these mulberry leaves, Wang Jibing had sales of more than 8 million yuan in 2016. Instead of raising silkworms, Wang Jibing buys more than 300 tons of mulberry leaves a year. What on earth does he use it for? It all started when he married his own boss.

Wang Jibing is from Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. he went out to work after graduating from high school. in 2005, he came to Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, where he worked as a cook in a restaurant. Li Yanfen was the female owner of that restaurant at that time. Li Yanfen appreciated him very much.

Li Yanfen, wife of Wang Jibing: I think he is very nice, diligent and good at taking care of people. When we go shopping, he is very caring about people.

Li Yanfen appreciates Wang Jibing, and Wang Jibing is also very fond of this beautiful and capable female boss. Li Yanfen likes to eat small walnuts. Wang Jibing peels walnuts for her as soon as he is free.

Wang Jibing's wife Li Yanfen: he sat alone on our bar, peeling off a bag of small walnut meat and knocking it open with something. I was very moved at that time.