The next morning, Wang Yi and Wang Yaoxue went to a neighboring village. They found the village chief and director and explained the situation to them.
The village chiefs and directors were delighted, too. They had been worrying about how to sell this year's fruit.
Wang Yi was offering a high price, and he could take a large quantity. How could they not be happy?
The village leaders first used the loudspeaker to tell the villagers to gather in the square in front of the village committee office. Then Wang Yi explained the situation to everyone.
By the end of the day, more than ten nearby villages had started mobilizing, too.
People began bringing their produce to the Wang Family Village committee office, where Wang Yaoxue and the others personally inspected it.
At the same time, they contacted the county's courier company and asked them to come to the Wang Family Village committee office to collect apples and ship them all over the country.
For the next three days, more than ten villages near Wang Family Village were bustling with activity.
Everyone put aside whatever else they had been doing.
Those building houses stopped building, those plowing fields stopped plowing, and those planting trees stopped planting. They all came to pick, sort, and pack apples, then haul the packed fruit to Wang Family Village.
In previous years, they had sold their apples to buyers out in the fields for just over two or three yuan per half-kilo.
They could get five or six yuan per half-kilo by taking them to the county seat to sell, but they had other work to do. How could they find the time to sell them there?
Now they could bring everything to Wang Family Village and get the highest prices they'd seen in years.