Farmer Chen Lei's family earns more than 1,000 yuan a day when they sell strawberries as a WeChat businessman.

"now our whole family is a WeChat businessman, and basically all our strawberries are sold through Wechat. We don't have to go to the market. Our daily income is more than 1000 yuan." Chen Lei and his family, strawberry growers in Shihuangdi Village, Wushu Street, Diaobingshan City, have been busy throughout the Spring Festival. Selling through Wechat, his family's strawberries have become popular.

Several picking guests are tasting strawberries in Chen Lei's strawberry greenhouse on Feb. 6. They think Chen Lei's strawberries are crisp and refreshing, sour and sweet, with a hint of fresh milk. "my family grows Dandong 99 strawberries. Water is watered once a week. About 5 kilograms of milk is added to the water. Without pesticides and swelling, strawberries naturally taste good." Chen Lei said. In the greenhouse, there is a thin white rope above the strawberry seedlings that attracts guests' attention. Small plastic bags containing green particles hang from the white rope every 2 meters or so. Chen Lei explained that the bag contains solid carbon dioxide, which not only avoids ventilation damage to strawberries, but also replenishes strawberries with nutrients.

Chen Lei's strawberries came on the market one after another before the Spring Festival. Because of its good reputation and good taste of strawberries, his family's strawberries are in short supply. Not only local people come to buy them, but also customers from other places such as Faku and Kangping come to pick them.

Only part of the strawberries are sold by picking. Now most of Chen Lei's strawberries are sold on Wechat. Chen Lei's 16-year-old daughter, Chen Ming, is on holiday at home. She uses her mobile Wechat to send photos, latest prices and delivery information of strawberries to her moments every day. Then Chen Lei and his wife pick, pack and deliver strawberries according to Wechat orders. The family is very busy. "these days, on average, we can receive orders of about 15 kilograms a day, and we don't have to worry about sales at all." Chen Lei said that once the strawberries are ripe, they are difficult to store and easily cause economic losses. With Wechat sales there is a "double insurance", on the one hand, grasp the customer demand, how much to pick, on the other hand, the first time to send to the customer's home, to ensure that customers eat the freshest strawberries.

The new sales method has brought real benefits to Chen Lei's family. Chen Lei said that his family has two greenhouse strawberries, strawberries ripe on the market years ago, the price of better strawberries is about 60 yuan per kilogram, a conservative estimate, the income of a shed is more than 40,000 yuan. "this January, our family lived in the greenhouse. Although we were a little tired, the whole family was happy. As long as the income is high, Chinese New year is celebrated every day! " Chen Lei said happily.