Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 177
Even wholesale places don’t have the goods, and even if there are, we must first ensure the supply of large state-owned stores.

"If I had known this, I would have bought more goods." Li Yufeng said.

"Buy more goods? Then we can only sleep standing up." Wang Haifu said.

After the meal, Wang Haifu and Lao Chen couldn't rest yet. The two of them had to assemble bicycle parts into bicycles, and they had to install as many bicycles as possible.

When loading the bicycle, Lao Chen asked Wang Haifu, "How much do we want this time?"

Wang Haifu stretched out two fingers and said: "If it is less than this number, I will fight with him!"

The next morning, Wang Haifu did not open the door of the store, but opened two windows for ventilation.

Before six o'clock, people came to the store door to buy things.

In his 50s, Master Huang, who lives nearby and is also a retired worker, stood outside carrying a large plastic bucket.

"Old Huang, you came shopping so early?" Wang Haifu asked.

Master Huang put the plastic bucket on the window sill and said, "Give me twenty catties of soy sauce!"

Wang Haifu took the plastic bucket, walked to the side of the soy sauce tank, opened the lid, and inserted the funnel into the plastic bucket. While pouring the soy sauce into the bucket, he said, "Brother, if the soy sauce is left for too long, hair will grow!"

"Saving one yuan is one yuan! The big deal is pouring it into a pot and cooking." Master Huang said.

Before seven o'clock, there were several people standing outside the store.

"Master, why don't you open the door?" A middle-aged woman asked.

"There are too many people, and we can't take care of them inside. Today, we can only sell things through the windows," Wang Haifu replied.

The middle-aged woman immediately said, "Give me fifty catties of sugar first!"

Another busy day has begun.

Wang Weidong stood outside the bank waiting for the bank to open and go in to deposit money.Yesterday's turnover was too high, so I can't keep too much money at home, so I have to save it immediately.

There were a lot of people waiting outside the bank today, and they rushed in as soon as the bank opened.

Wang Weidong stood in the long queue, listening to the voice from the service window.

Almost all the people who come here today come to withdraw money, and they all withdraw money of hundreds or thousands of dollars.

When it was Wang Weidong's turn to handle it, the salesman looked at him in surprise when he saw Wang Weidong hand in a few bricks of money through the window.

Li Yufeng's voice was almost hoarse. She had just finished counting the money of a person who wanted to buy a bicycle at the window. She bent down and took a poker, tore off half of it and handed it to the person who was waiting for a bicycle.

"What is this?" The man asked wonderingly with half a poker in his hand.

"What if the bicycle is passed out of the window and hits someone?" Li Yufeng said.

Now there are dozens of people who want to buy things crowded near the window, and when Li Yufeng looked down, all she saw were heads.

"You can exchange for a bicycle by walking around the back door of the store with half a poker card!" Li Yufeng explained loudly.

She turned around and gave the remaining half of the poker to Huang Guiying who was waiting beside her.

Today is so busy that even an old lady in her 70s is on the scene.

Huang Guiying walked tremblingly through the store to the backyard, and she handed half a playing card to Chen Jihong who was standing at the door of the backyard.

In less than a minute, the person who bought the bicycle came to the door of the backyard. He handed half a playing card to Chen Jihong. Chen Jihong checked the two half playing cards together and then turned around and pushed a bicycle from the yard to the door.

The whole process is like a spy connection.

The mothers of Li Yufeng and Chen Jihong stood in front of the two windows to collect money and sell things, while Wang Haifu and Chen Jihong's father weighed various products in the back and delivered them in front of the windows. The four of them were very busy.

After saving money, Wang Weidong returned home from the back door and immediately moved the color TV and washing machine to the front store. More than half of the goods he had saved for two months had already been sold.

After doing these things, he squatted under the two windows again, picked out the big unity that was placed in the shoe box at the feet of Li Yufeng and Chen Jihong's mother, and put it in the back room for preservation.

At noon, Li Yufeng and Chen Jihong's mother standing in front of the window said hoarsely from time to time: "No more, really no more."

Items have already started to sell out.

However, people who stand outside to buy things usually don’t leave. If they can’t buy this kind of product, they will immediately change to another one. Today, they can only go home with things but not money!More and more products are sold out.

The shops didn't close their windows until nine o'clock in the evening.

Everyone in the family was as tired as mud and could not move.

Wang Weidong opened two bottles of canned yellow peaches to his mother and mother-in-law: "Moisten your throat first."

Li Yufeng said in a hoarse voice: "Prodigal bastard, it's all money!"

"I cook today, and I can relax tomorrow. There are not many things left." Wang Weidong said.

Sure enough, the next day was only busy for half a day, so there wasn't much to do in the afternoon.

Because there are very few items left in the store.

All the soy sauce, vinegar, and white wine were sold out, all kinds of cloth were sold out, three to four tons of sugar and salt were sold out, and the color TVs, washing machines, and bicycles were also sold out.

Most of what's left now is kids' snacks and things like that.

In just three or four days, all the more than 20 stocks purchased by Wang Weidong were sold out.

Wang Haifu asked Wang Weidong: "Did you know this beforehand?"

"I had a phone call with Ou Xiaoyang a few days ago, and I guessed it from what he said." Wang Weidong replied.

"How much money do you estimate this time?" Wang Haifu continued to ask.

"Seven or eight thousand." Wang Weidong replied.

He shrunk the profit to a tenth of its original size.

"You fart! I've sold things for so long, can I not count?" Wang Haifu scolded.

"I've already made up my mind, the four of you are worth two thousand dollars each! Let Ji Hong's parents go to the south to visit her elder brother in two days. When they come back, you and my mother will take my grandma to travel again." Wang Weidong said.

Wang Weidong has been to the wholesale point several times, but there is no stock, and it will take a while to buy the goods.

Wang Weidong estimated that when the wholesale department has enough supplies, the rush to buy should pass.

Wang Weidong took out 4000 yuan to let his father-in-law and mother-in-law go to the south to see their son, and the old couple left happily.

After another ten days, the wholesale department slowly began to supply goods, and the first ones that could be purchased were not very popular products.

Wang Weidong purchased some products, and the shelves were slowly being filled.

Nearly a month later, the parents-in-law came back and brought back a lot of dried meat, which is a local specialty of Chen Jihong's garrison.Now the old couple hopes that when their son reaches a certain level of military officer, they will follow him to join the army.

After the in-laws came back, Wang Haifu and Li Yufeng took their mother Huang Guiying to Beijing for a half-month tour, and returned to Harbin in mid-September.

Now it was Wang Weidong's turn to take Chen Jihong on a trip. He planned to take Chen Jihong to Shanghai first and then to the capital for a tour.

(End of this chapter)