Zhu Yunfen embarked on the road to wealth by planting roses

In the early morning of April 27th, it was drizzling.

Beside the village road of Baiguo Village, Jianlong Town, bursts of fragrance have come along with the wind, and the fragrance of flowers is getting stronger as we get closer.

Gradually, a bright red color came into view, and 500 mu of roses in Jianlong Town were in full bloom, just like a sea of flowers. It is understood that Jianglong Town Baiguo Village rose cultivation has a long history, there are 500mu of roses, direct economic income reached 4 million yuan, and led more than 200 surrounding villagers to become rich.

She and her husband have been growing roses for more than ten years

At two o'clock on the night of April 26, a small light lit up in a three-story house in Ginkgo Village.

This is Zhu Yunfen getting up. Afraid of disturbing her husband Zeng Youxin's rest, she only turned on the small light, groped to get dressed, and was ready to go downstairs.

But Zeng Youxin woke up and said, "Let's go, together!" Zeng Youxin, who had just slept for less than three hours, turned over, picked up his tools and walked out the door.

At this moment of the night, quiet.

Zhu Yunfen and Zeng Youxin walked to a field not far from the house with flashlights.

This night, they had a task to pick the roses from this nearly two-acre field, because the next day workers would come to buy them.

Zhu Yunfen is a member of two groups of villagers in ginkgo village. the 60-year-old she and her husband have grown roses for more than a decade and have relied on roses to become rich.

The roses in ginkgo village are not ordinary ornamental roses, but edible roses, which smell fragrant and can be made into rose tea, rose drinks and so on.

Zhu Yunfen and her husband planted roses at the end of the last century, when many villagers in the village also planted roses like them.

Zhu Yunfen said that roses were planted in the village at the beginning of reform and opening up, but at the beginning the scale was small and the number of people planted was relatively small.

After more than a decade of waiting and watching, Zhu Yunfen and her husband decided to join the "sea of flowers", and they also planted roses. Because several cousins chose to go out to work, Zhu Yunfen and his wife gathered their land together and planted roses.

She was the only one who picked up the cost.

At first, Zhu Yunfen, like many growers in the village, was inexperienced and waited for the vendors to come to buy.

"A single sales channel is easily restricted by vendors." Zhu Yunfen said that in 2012, the merchants who collected flowers at home had collected enough goods and were unwilling to buy any more. Several acres of roses planted by her family were rotten in the field, and the family was deeply distressed.

Like Zhu Yunfen's family, there are hundreds of growers in the village. For a moment, the sighs of the villagers could be heard when walking in the village.

But Zhu Yunfen and Zeng Youxin are unwilling to admit defeat. Lao Zeng, who has worked hard all his life, said that one can never be stumped by difficulties.

Zhu Yunfen and her husband Zeng Youxin chose to turn on a flashlight to pick roses in the fields in the evening, and carried roses through the streets early the next morning, hoping that all the more than ten mu of roses would not rot in the field.

It was in this year that Zeng Youxin chose to pick roses from street to street to sell his roses. Laifeng, Qingba, Bishan City, the two even sold roses to the main city of Chongqing.

The two men also thought of a way to sell roses and get their fame out at the same time. As a result, Zeng Youxin often carries the burden while handing over his business card to customers in need.

From April to June of that year, Zhu Yunfen and Zeng Weixin failed to get a good night's sleep and often got up to pick roses after three or four hours of sleep at night. However, the two are not afraid of tiredness, as long as they can sell the roses, all the efforts are worth it.

This year, under the circumstances that more than 200 households in the village suffered heavy losses, Zhu Yunfen and his family recovered the cost.

After opening up his ideas, he embarked on the road to wealth.

It is the lesson of this year that made Zhu Yunfen think that a single form of door-to-door purchase by waiting for vendors may make a year of hard work fruitless. But how do you get out of this circle?

Zhu Yunfen said that he really went to a lot of trouble to come up with a way.

By chance, Zhu Yunfen saw a message on TV, saying that eating roses can also be made into scented tea, which has the effect of beauty and beauty.

Zhu Yunfen immediately came to the spirit, why not multi-habitat development? Rose tea and rose drinks are good choices, and you can even sell rose seedlings.

Zhu Yunfen calculated that roses bloom from March to November, large flowers from March to the end of May, and small flowers from June to November.

As a result, Zhu Yunfen sold roses and flowers from March to May wholesale at 7 yuan per jin to vendors, and sold them for 15 yuan per jin.

The roses after June could not sell at a good price. Zhu Yunfen dried them into scented tea, or crushed the petals and pickled them with white sugar or propolis to make a rose drink to relieve summer heat and quench thirst.

Not only that, Zhu Yunfen also chose to cut off the flower branches in September and insert them into the field for cultivation. Five months later, each plant could be sold for 5 to 15 yuan.

In 2016, Zhu Yunfen sold more than 30,000 rose seedlings.

Relying on roses, Zhu Yunfen and his family embarked on the road to prosperity.

The roses made him see more hope.

Zeng Weifu is Zhu Yunfen's neighbor and relative.

The 70-year-old Zeng Weifu family planted roses as early as 30 years ago. But at that time, only one mu of land was planted, and Zeng Weifu at that time did not think that roses would make his life interesting in his old age.

Over the years, Zeng Weifu has focused on growing rice. But as he grew older, Zeng Weifu felt more and more powerless.

I saw that the roses planted by the villagers in the village all made a good income. In 2015, Zeng Weifu was cruel and planted more than ten mu in one breath.

Weeding, fertilizing and pruning, Zeng Weifu carefully takes care of the rose seedlings in his family, hoping that they can bring changes to him.

This year, the roses of Zeng Weifu's family began to be put into production. At the end of March, Zeng Weifu stroked the roses in his rose field. These are his painstaking efforts and will be his main income.

On the 25th, Zeng Weifu told reporters that so far, he has earned nearly 10,000 yuan. The rose bloom will last at least until June, and he calculates that he will have an income of 20 to 30 thousand this year anyway.

"in the past year or two, many guests from the main city of Chongqing and even from other places have come here to enjoy flowers, buy flowers, and eat farm food." Zeng Weifu said that when guests leave, they will bring back some roses, rose tea, rose drinks or farm specialties. In this way, the income can be increased.

Now, Zeng Weifu's family has also renovated the house. Thinking of the rest of his life, Zeng Weifu grinned with satisfaction.

Hope that some leading enterprises will be stationed in ginkgo village

Zhu Yunfen and her husband Zeng Youxin have changed a lot in their home over the past few years because of their hard work and flexible mind.

A few years ago, Zhu Yunfen and his family built more than 300 square meters of houses in Ginkgo Village and bought more than 100 square meters of commercial housing in the town.

Moreover, in recent years, Zhu Yunfen's family relied on the income of roses to support their two daughters' studies and lent the rest of their savings to their two daughters to buy a house and a car.

Now, her son is about to enter the third year of high school, but Zhu Yunfen is not worried because she has already prepared the cost of college for her son.

Although he earns 80,000 to 90,000 yuan a year from roses, Zhu Yunfen still hopes to make a bigger difference.