Chapter 31: : Looking for another buyer
Chapter 31: : Looking for another buyer
The last time Zhou Cheng took her by bike, Xia Xiaolan didn't know that riding to Shangdu was so tired!
Since she came to 1983, exhaustion has become the norm. Yesterday she did not enter the city. She rode a bicycle to more than 20 villages and collected more than 50 catties of rice eel. Xia Xiaolan's job today is to sell the rice eel and the hundreds of eggs that he brought into the city. The busiest days of harvesting rice have passed, and fewer and fewer people are willing to sell eggs to Xia Xiaolan. Besides, with Qijing Village as the center, the villages in a radius of tens of miles have been dragged by her. Villagers It takes time to save eggs.
After selling these hundreds of eggs, Xia Xiaolan just concentrated on reselling the rice eel. This thing has grown up, waiting to be found in the paddy fields and ditches. Xia Xiaolan thought, selling rice eel is one thing, two baskets filled with things into the city, is it too uneconomical to go back empty? Can she get some goods from Shangdu to sell in the countryside?
The purchasing power in the rural areas is really terrible now. In addition to the essentials such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the rural people cant wait to hold every penny in their hands, so that they cant spend money without spending money... No, they dont even buy oil, some The only money that people spend all the year is to buy salt. It's okay if you don't eat soy, vinegar and oil, and people who don't eat salt have no energy!
What does she need to put back in order to get the money out of the farmers?
Later generations of marketing have said that women and children make the best money. Nowadays, women basically dont dress up, and children are running around the floor, and family planning has just begun, right? Which family is not a few children? The only seedlings are precious. Its good to have enough children to eat. How can there be so much spare money to spend on children, so Taotao carries a new schoolbag to go to school, which attracts the envy of other classmatestheir family is reluctant to buy it. The expensive new schoolbag.
There is no need to think about clothes for children. Older children wear clothes that are left for children to wear. A piece of clothing can be passed down like a family heirloom for many years.
Xia Xiaolan thought for a long time without a clue, and rode her bike to the first eel noodle shop.
"Comrade, do you still need eel today?"
She tried her best to speak seriously, but her voice was indeed too delicate. She greeted her. The eel noodle boss hadn't come out yet, and all the customers who ate the noodles looked at her.
The young man is recovering quickly. The wound on Xia Xiaolan's forehead has long been scabbed and scarred, and now there are only pale pink traces left. Although she didn't dress up with red-eyebrows, she was clean and tidy, she was already rare and beautiful.
Xia Xiaolan waited in place for a while, but it was not the boss who bought the eel that day that came out.
It's a middle-aged woman with a bad tone:
"If you don't buy rice eel, our store is always delivered by someone for a long time. Don't come here in the future!"
"But..."
"Why don't I say you, a lesbian, don't understand human language? Don't want rice eel, our shop doesn't want the rice eel you bought!"
The middle-aged woman had a bad tone, and the noodle customers in the store couldn't help but help:
"If you don't buy it, don't buy it, just talk well."
"Your rough voice scared this lesbian!"
"The old vinegar in the house is spilled out!"
The middle-aged woman did not quarrel with the guests, and there was a sound of beatings and beatings in the kitchen. Xia Xiaolan knew that this should be the bosss wife. She came to sell the eel that day and felt that the boss was very sincere. I didnt expect that the boss would somehow upset the jealousy--Xia Xiaolan was going to die, but she had to quarrel with the boss, and she would pay back in this area. Can't do business anymore?
It's really unlucky that there is no way to say it.
Xia Xiaolan's self-cultivation was good, and her face changed again and again.
Pushing his bicycle to leave, the owner of the eel noodles rushed out, "I'm sorry, you see that my family is unreasonable... The store dare not buy your eel anymore, but I have a relative in the municipal party committee. The guesthouse is in charge of purchasing. His name is Hu Yongcai. If you are willing to try it, you can say that it was introduced by Hu Zhuliang."
Boss Hu was very ashamed. His wife was ashamed of Xia Xiaolan in public, and she had to splash around in the store when she encountered a bad temper. It's rare that Xia Xiaolan didn't care about it, but she couldn't bully people too much.
Municipal Party Guest House?
The official yamen are not easy to deal with, but it can be successful and it is also a long-term partner.
"Thank you, boss Hu!"
Xia Xiaolan thanked him, Hu Zhuliang did not dare to stay long, and his wife became angry in the store again.
Xia Xiaolan did not go to the Municipal Party Committee Guest House immediately.
It's not that she didn't believe in the introduction of boss Hu, but that she inquired that the name of the guest house was so big that it was not in the urban area at all, but in the western suburbs of the city. The ghost knows what the leaders of the business city think, and built the city committee guest house so far away.
Xia Xiaolan also went to the previous farmer's market to sell goods. She will be here early today. There are quite a lot of people in the farmer's market.
After paying the management fee and assigning it to a small position, Xia Xiaolan erected the sign, and someone stepped forward to choose it. She is unforgettable, and people who buy groceries remember her. Someone asked her why she hadn't come. Xia Xiaolan responded to similar questions with a smile.
"Unagi is cheaper?"
"One catty, as long as one catty, you have to weigh enough!"
When the business came, the people buying vegetables surrounded Xia Xiaolan, and they talked about weighing the scales and collecting money for change. Some bought eggs and some bought rice eel. If they reacted a little bit slower, they would definitely be involved. Confused. Xia Xiaolan had been busy for two hours, and her clothes were soaked with sweat, so she had time to spare.
They all buy them home and eat them on their own. There are few customers who buy in bulk, and they are scattered. There are more than 100 eggs left, and more than 20 catties of rice eel.
The farmers market sells all kinds of strange goods, but the good ones are either peoples daily necessities or rare things, such as the rice eel brought by Xia Xiaolan from the countryside. If Xia Xiaolan brings some small vegetables, it will cost a few cents a catty, and it will be thankless and not competitive.
After holding on to the farmers market for a while, Xia Xiaolans eggs and eels were all left.
This kind of retailing is indeed very risky every day. Xia Xiaolan also wants to find a large-scale acquisition. She is thinking about what Boss Hu said, and is going to visit the Municipal Party Committee Guest House. A person who is in charge of purchasing in the guest house of the municipal party committee may not be able to buy much, but the other party must know other colleagues. The 1980s was a period of strong personal touch. If she can get involved with Boss Hus relative Hu Yongcai, then open it. It may be more than just a market.
Xia Xiaolan was going to use the sugar-coated shells trained by later generations to erode Comrade Hu Liangcai.
Gifts are exquisite. Gifts are given to **** men. You can never go wrong with cigarettes and alcohol. Moutai and Wuliangye have the most face in the drinks, let alone the price, these two special wines are all rationed to the cadres, Xia Xiaolan can not even touch the bottle with the money, there is a price but no market, so you cant buy it. To!
Let's talk about cigarettes, the golden leaves, scattered flowers and colorful butterflies produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory. 'Golden Leaf' is a Class B cigarette smoked by middle and lower-level smokers,'Sanhua' is a Class A (extra) cigarette for leaders and meetings at all levels, and'Caidie' is between these two types of cigarettes, although it is a Class A cigarette. Grade cigarettes, the retail price is 0.35/box, Xia Xiaolan thinks its okay to give it to Boss Hus relativesbut she was immediately beaten by reality. People heard that she was going to buy a'color butterfly', and looked at her like a fool:
"One? No! You are going to buy more than two packs, and you have to open a note for me!"