Are you still eating garlic this year?

I went to the supermarket yesterday. I wanted to buy some garlic. I looked at this price! I won't eat garlic if you are ruthless.

After a lapse of six years, you have made a big comeback. The editor's hometown is from the countryside, and his parents are still planting land in the countryside. I also grow some garlic at home. When the garlic was received, the price was less than 3 yuan per jin, and the parents thought the price was already very high, so they sold all of it. Unexpectedly, the price is still rising.

Not far from the editor is Jinxiang County in Jining, Shandong Province, with the title of "hometown of garlic in China". Because garlic bosses are everywhere, they "become multimillionaires overnight."

Purchasers receive garlic from farmers' homes at a relatively low price, and then store it in cold storage, where large acquirers can store hundreds of tons at a time. Because the shelf life of garlic can be as long as three years, this virtually increases the hoarding cycle of buyers, so that they can more flexibly regulate and speculate the supply and demand market.

In Jinxiang County, there are such big acquirers who are familiar with hot money hype, cooperate with each other, raise garlic prices and then sell collectively, making a lot of money.

This also reminds me that many years ago, garlic cost a few cents a jin. On the roadside and in the ditch, there is garlic poured by ordinary people everywhere, and the thick smell of rotten garlic can be smelled far away (our dialect is called "smelling garlic").