031: Find Another Buyer

The last time Zhou Cheng took her on a bike ride, Xia Xiaolan didn't know how tiring it was to ride to Shangcheng!

Since she arrived in 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 eels. Xia Xiaolan's job today is to sell the eel and the hundreds of eggs she 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, villages in a radius of dozens of miles have been dragged around by her. It takes time to save eggs.

After selling these hundreds of eggs, Xia Xiaolan just concentrated on selling the yellow eel. This thing has grown up and is just waiting to be found in the paddy fields and ditches. Xia Xiaolan thought, selling eel is one thing, isn't it too uneconomical to go back into the city with two baskets full of things? Can she take some goods from the commercial city and sell them in the countryside?

It's just that the purchasing power of the rural areas is really bad. Except for the necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the rural people can't wait to hold on to every penny in their hands. If they can spend it, they don't spend it... No, they don't even buy oil. Some The only money people spend at the end of the year is to buy salt, it’s okay not to eat soy sauce, vinegar and oil, and people who don’t eat salt have no energy!

What does she need to pack back to get the money out of the farmer?

Marketing in later generations has said that women and children make the best money. Now women basically don’t dress up, and children are more likely to be free-ranging. Family planning has just begun, right? Which one doesn’t have a few children? The only seedlings are precious, and it would be good to have enough children to have enough to eat. How could there be so much spare money to spend on children, so Taotao carried a new schoolbag to go to school, which attracted the envy of other classmates-their family was reluctant to buy such a What about an expensive new bag?

You don't need to think about children's clothes. The older children wear them for children. A piece of clothing can be passed down for several years like a family heirloom, until it can no longer be worn, and its mission is completed.

Xia Xiaolan thought about it for a long time and had no idea, and rode her bike to the first shop selling eel noodles.

"Comrade, do you still need an eel today?"

She tried her best to speak seriously, but her voice was really too sweet. She said hello. The boss of the eel noodles had not come out yet, and all the guests who were eating noodles looked at her.

The young man is recovering quickly. The wound on Xia Xiaolan's forehead has long since scabbed off, and now there are only pale pink traces left. Although she did not wear red thrush eyebrows, she was clean and fresh, which was already rare and beautiful.

Xia Xiaolan waited for a while, but it was not the boss who bought the eel that day who came out.

It's a middle-aged woman with a bad tone:

"If you don't buy eels, our store is always delivered by someone for a long time. Don't come here in the future!"

"But……"

"I said, why don't you, a lesbian, understand human language? No eel, our store doesn't want the eel you brought!"

The middle-aged woman has a bad tone, and the customers who eat noodles in the store can't help but help:

"If you don't buy it, don't buy it. Talk well."

"Your thick voice frightened this lesbian!"

"The vinegar at home is spilled out!"

The middle-aged woman did not quarrel with the guests, and there was a sound of beating and beating from the kitchen. Xia Xiaolan knew that this should be the proprietress. When she came to sell the eel that day, she only felt that the boss was very sincere, but she didn't expect that the proprietress had overturned the vinegar jar somehow - Xia Xiaolan was wronged, but she had to quarrel with the proprietress, and she would still be in this area in the future. Are you out of business?

Really unlucky can't say.

Xia Xiaolan has taken good care of herself, and her complexion has changed and changed.

Pushing the bicycle to leave, the owner of the eel noodles rushed out, "I'm really sorry, you see that my family is unreasonable... The store doesn't dare to buy your eel anymore, but I have a relative in the municipal party committee. The guest house is in charge of purchasing, his name is Hu Yongcai, if you are willing to try it, say it was introduced by Hu Zhuliang."

Boss Hu was very ashamed. His wife was like disgracing Xia Xiaolan in public. She had to splash around in the store when she met someone with a bad temper.

Municipal Party Guest House?

The official yamen is not easy to deal with, but it can really succeed and it is also a long-term partner.

"Thank you, Boss Hu!"

Xia Xiaolan thanked him, Hu Zhuliang didn't dare to stay long, and his wife got angry in the store again.

Xia Xiaolan did not immediately go to the Municipal Party Committee Guest House.

It's not that she doesn't believe Boss Hu's introduction, it's just an inquiry. The hostel's name is tall, but it's not in the urban area at all, but in the suburban west corner. The ghost knows what the leaders of the business city think, building the Municipal Party Committee Guest House so far away.

Xia Xiaolan also went to the farmer's market before to sell goods. She wants to come early today, and there are quite a lot of people at the farmer's market.

After paying the management fee and being assigned a small position, Xia Xiaolan put up the signboard, and someone stepped forward to choose it. She looks unforgettable, and some grocery shoppers remember her. When someone asked her why her partner didn't come, Xia Xiaolan responded with a smile to all such questions.

"Eel is cheaper?"

"One pound, as long as one pound, you have to give enough on the scale!"

When the business came, the grocery shoppers surrounded Xia Xiaolan and talked nonsense. They had to weigh the scales, and they had to collect money for change. Some bought eggs, some bought eels, and those who responded a little slower would definitely get caught. confused. Xia Xiaolan had been busy for two hours, and her clothes were soaked with sweat, so she was free.

They are all bought and eaten by themselves. There are few customers who buy in bulk, and they are scattered. There are still more than 100 eggs and 20 kilograms of eels left.

The goods sold in the farmers market are all kinds of strange, but the good ones are either the necessities of people's life or the rare things.

, such as the eel that Xia Xiaolan brought from the countryside. If Xia Xiaolan brought some small vegetables, it would cost a few cents a pound, which would be thankless and not very competitive.

After holding on for a while at the farmers market, Xia Xiaolan had some eggs and eels left.

It is indeed very risky to do retail like this every day. Xia Xiaolan still wants to find someone who can buy in large quantities. She is thinking about Boss Hu's words and plans to go to the Municipal Party Committee Guest House to have a look. A person who is in charge of purchasing in a guest house of the municipal party committee, the guest house may not be able to buy much goods, but the other party must know other colleagues - the 1980s was a period of strong personal feelings, if she could get involved with Hu Yongcai, a relative of Boss Hu, then it would be opened. Possibly more than just a market.

Xia Xiaolan intends to corrupt Comrade Hu Liangcai with sugar-coated cannonballs that he has learned from the sales of the later generations.

Gift-giving is exquisite. When giving gifts to gay men, you can never go wrong with cigarettes and alcohol. Moutai and Wuliangye are definitely the most respectable among the wines. Let’s not talk about the price. These two kinds of special wines are rationed for cadres. Xia Xiaolan can’t even touch the wine bottle with the money. arrive!

Speaking of cigarettes, the golden leaves, scattered flowers and colorful butterflies produced by Shangdu Cigarette Factory. 'Golden Leaf' is a Grade B cigarette smoked by middle and lower-level smokers, 'Sanhua' is a Grade A (special) cigarette exclusively used by leaders at all levels and meetings, and 'Caidie' is in between these two types of cigarettes, although it is a class A cigarette. Grade cigarettes, retail price 0.35/box, Xia Xiaolan thought it was okay to give to Boss Hu's relatives - but she was immediately slapped in the face by reality, when they heard that she was going to buy a 'color butterfly', she looked at her with the eyes of a fool:

"One? No! If you want to buy more than two packs, you have to write me a note!"