turn the clouds

Chapter 33
On the second day, he accompanied Qi Zhongliu to school.

Chu Tianshu asked old man Zhao about some trivial matters in life, and went to Fuyan Street again at ten o'clock.

Wandering around here for a long time, still can't see the so-called Xie Ningzi.

So Chu Tianshu went to the shop where he ate frogs yesterday.

This is a snack bar.

When he came here, because the time card was neither early nor late, there were no customers, and the shop owner was bored reading a book because he had nothing to do.

When Chu Tianshu walked in, he was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously wanted to hide the book in his hand.

Chu Tianshu took a look.

That book is a picture book with style.

The knowledge is good, but the drawing skills need to be improved.

"What to eat?"

"Of course I eat frogs." Chu Tianshu said, "Don't you only sell frogs here?"

"It's a ladle." The boss laughed: "I have worked outside before, and what I sell is not frogs, but stewed vegetables."

"Is that so?" Chu Tianshu nodded: "Then I have to try your stewed vegetables when I have time."

"It's long gone." The boss sighed: "I lost a lot of money when I made braised vegetables, and now I feel angry when I think about it."

"How to say?"

"Hey, that's it." The boss said, went back to the kitchen, caught a few frogs, took a knife and a small chopping board, and started cleaning the frogs in front of Chu Tianshu.

"I used to open my shop at the entrance of the factory building. What was I thinking at that time? I thought that you have a lot of people and the work is heavy. Why don't you come to drink some wine and eat some salty food after work?" ?”

"That's right!" Chu Tianshu was a little surprised: "Isn't this normal? Workers do heavy work in the factory, and most of them have the habit of drinking. They should drink some wine after work. Eat food."

"I think so too!" The boss clapped the frog's thigh in his hand: "It's normal to think so!"

"What about the actual situation?" Chu Tianshu asked hastily.

"The actual situation..." The boss skillfully cut off the frog's head, picked out the internal organs with a knife, and then turned the knife backhand to remove the whole frog skin.

"The actual situation is similar, but there is a slight deviation."

"Although the workers' income is not bad, they don't dare to spend a lot of money on small drinks and food."

"Drink the worst watered wine, anything that smells like wine."

"Eating food doesn't mean whether it tastes good or not. The first thing to consider is the price."

"The time for picking up customers is just that little, and everyone spends little money."

"so what?"

"So the profit is low." The boss sighed: "It's fine if the profit is low, after all, there are many people, and workers generally work around the clock."

"What's terrible is that in order to attract as many workers as possible, everyone lowers the price, sells the entire dish separately, and actively mixes wine with water in multiple portions, and then lowers the price."

"Then brother, you went bankrupt because you refused to join forces?" Chu Tianshu asked.

"What!" The boss shook his head: "I sell stewed vegetables, which are the best to split."

"I used to sell my stewed vegetables by the catty."

"After everyone started a price war, I didn't judge by weight. I took small bamboo sticks and skewered the small dishes that could be skewered. I put a brine pot at the door, pushed the vegetables in, and the fire was burning underneath. Put a small jar, pour wine mixed with water, put a spoon, every time someone comes, I will charge a penny, and then allow him to take a bunch of stewed vegetables and drink a glass of wine."

"At that time, I made a lot of money with this!"

The boss said triumphantly.

Chu Tianshu said with emotion: "Then you are pretty good."

While the two were talking, four or five frogs had already been peeled.

"What flavor do you eat?" the boss asked.

"Two sweet ones, two spicy ones."

"Okay." He said, cleaned all the frogs that were still alive and kicking just now, dealt with them quickly, and then dug them out to chat with Chu Tianshu.

"Where were we talking about?"

"Speaking of brother, you have opened up a new way of selling goods, and your wisdom has crushed all your peers, and you have made a lot of money."

"Hahaha, that's all in the past." The boss looked proud and restrained, but it seemed that he was always unsuccessful.

"Brother, you are such a powerful person, why did you lose money?"

"Hi." The boss sighed, "I'm angry when I mention it."

"How to say?" Chu Tianshu was curious.

"Seeing that they have made money, those grandchildren raised the house." The boss gritted his teeth: "Then the rent was raised, and I have to mention the vegetable prices online."

"In order to raise the price, I specifically said that I changed the cup to a larger one and put a lot of meat in the stewed vegetables. I thought it would be fine to raise only five cents."

"As a result, when I mentioned this, the colleagues in the surrounding area got a batch of cheap oil from nowhere, and got a way to sell a cheaper imported wine called beer."

"Instead of mentioning it, they lowered the price."

"If we do this, everyone in my shop will raise prices!" The boss sighed again and again: "Oh, I panicked later and started to lower prices, thinking that I was going to lose money and make a profit, but I didn't make any money at that time. Lost a lot of money."

"Is that so? Then your loss of money is purely due to the rent."

"Yeah, I think so too." The boss sighed again and again: "You don't know how good the business of my house was before the rent was raised!"

"Damn it." Chu Tianshu shook his head: "This kind of thing is really shameful."

"Yeah, really, it's like sucking blood on our body." The boss sighed, stood up again, went back to the kitchen, took out the spicy frog and served it to Chu Tianshu.

"Come on, bro, eat the spicy one first, and I'll give you a glass of juice." The boss said, and squeezed a glass of sugarcane and orange juice for Chu Tianshu.

"Thank you bro."

"Sweet ones have to wait for a while."

As he spoke, he turned on the fire and began to cook the sweet sauce.

While eating the frog, Chu Tianshu was thinking about the things the shop owner said.

In the factory area, it seems that there are not many small businesses that have been ruined by the rent.

The location of the factory area empowers the nearby houses, and the price increase is in line with the law of the market.

But therein lies the vulnerability of the real economy.

The price increase in the link before the production that cannot be seen by the eyes can force the workers on the consumer side and those actual small producers and operators who were originally regarded as petty bourgeoisie to increase their prices.

Furthermore, the cost of rent is actually added to the workers.

Including their own rent, and the rent of surrounding shops increased due to their gathering consumption.

In fact, the cost, layer upon layer, will be shared among them.

On the surface, this is the land eating them; in fact, the heaviest interests fall on those big landlords who hold the most land resources.

Dynasty or bureaucracy.

The basic contradiction has not changed much, but the form has changed.

Thinking about it, Chu Tianshu took out his pocket watch again.

Counting the time, if that girl is Xie Ningzi, then she should be here too.

(End of this chapter)