good old days

This year’s goods from Xinjiang Province have all arrived. The bags are stacked on two levels, filling a quarter of the warehouse.

The market was under strict supervision and no speculation was allowed in the open space behind the store, so Jiang Xinyu rented a workshop next to the warehouse.

The key to the warehouse is with Wang Sumei. Every time the couple takes a certain amount of goods, they have to notify Wang Sumei to open the door, weigh the weight with a scale, and keep records.

To facilitate business, I now have a bicycle and a tricycle at home.

When they arrived at the workshop, the couple were busy working. Zhang Qiaoqiao said: "Boss, the seeds we roast here are delicious. The smell wafts far away. Many people asked about buying them, but all the bags were sent to the store. , we don’t know how much bulk cargo will be priced this year, and even if we know, we can’t sell it here. Can we also rent a store here? The business should be good.”

Why don’t you make money if you have money? The key is insufficient quantity.

Although the purchase volume of all products has increased a lot this year, Jiang Xinyu does not think it can support the sales of the two stores throughout the year.

Wang Sumei thought about it and said: "Xiao Zhang is right. There are more goods in our warehouse than last year. If Guo Hong, her uncle and Xiao Ding also buy more goods this year, we can give it a try. We are afraid that there will be two stores If there is not enough to sell, we will only sell packaging bags.”

The market here was built less than a year ago. The people in the market are all the surrounding residents. There are not as many people as in Dongfeng Market, but there are still many people coming and going.

Jiang Xinyu feels that her mother-in-law now has a business acumen, "That's what you said. Let's see how much goods can come in this year."

Her store is now open. In addition to the goods shipped from Xinjiang Province and Northeast China, there are also people who specially deliver peanuts and melon seeds to the store. The old man who worked with her last year has collected a lot of goods and delivered them this year, and someone else has sent a few. One hundred kilograms of walnuts.

Seeing that Zhang Qiaoqiao hesitated to speak, Jiang Xinyu said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Can we recruit one more person in the workshop? There are a lot of varieties to be speculated on, and we have to pick and prepare goods for loading. There is actually a lot of work. When the goods from the Northeast arrive, we will be as busy as we were during the Chinese New Year last year. "

Last year during the Chinese New Year, the sales almost went crazy. Jin Fuhai and his wife really didn’t have time to sell all the goods, so they sold all the goods in bulk.

Wang Sumei: "Then recruit another one to attack you."

Jiang Xinyu saw that the workshop was full of stuff and the couple had no time to spare, so of course they would not object to hiring more people.

Zhang Qiaoqiao and his wife were extremely happy.

Although I can make money by working, I am here from morning to night. I am so busy that I have no time to eat at noon every day. It is really very tiring.

Guo Yimin contacted Jiang Xinyu two months ago. After getting Jiang Xinyu's approval, he asked the village and surrounding villagers to go to the mountains to collect as much as they could.

The village has planted hazelnuts this year, but it is still in the exploratory stage. The saplings have not died too much, but they have not yet produced fruit. Experts invited from above said that it may take three or four years to bear fruit. Guo Yimin was under great pressure to take risks in growing hazelnuts.

The land in the village is used to grow food. After getting approval from the superiors, although each household has paid less in withdrawals, because hazelnuts have not been produced for several years, each household's income is actually less than that of other villages.

At this time, a group of villagers gathered around Guo Yimin's house. They all came for the same purpose. The price of the dry goods they received was higher than last year.

"Lao Guo, if you can lead us to make money, we all listen to you. You asked us big guys to continue to open up wasteland and plant trees, and we all did it. We pointed out that we can make a fortune from that large area of ​​​​things, and even set aside part of our own land for planting. When we go to the tree, we pay less than others, but our households do not have enough food as in other villages. If our lives are difficult, we have to make up for it from other places."

"I went to the city a few days before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The price of pine nuts and hazelnuts sold at the stall was fifty cents higher than what you charged last year. Others also charged the price, and the price was also higher than last year. If you don't increase the price here, in order to earn more, we I can only sell it to others.”

The one who was more radical said directly: "The party secretary of our village is not kind at all. The payment is given to other villages first. When do we have to wait? You are relying on us to listen to you. How dare you do this to one of our own."

Guo Yimin dusted off the cigarette ashes, looked around and asked, "Do you still have any complaints? Have you all talked about it together today?"

"This is not a complaint. You have to solve the biggest problem for us. Can you increase the price? If you don't increase the price, we will sell it to others."

Guo Yimin was calm and said, "Which big boss can collect all the useful goods from all over the country?"

"Do you think I don't know that you have gone to the mountains and forests to crack pine nuts in the past two months to receive goods? Duyan, your family alone has collected more than 300 kilograms, right?"

The one-eyed man squatting on the threshold smoking a cigarette was proud of himself. His family had many young children, and they could also climb trees. They had harvested more pine nuts this year than anyone else.

"If any boss can collect all your goods, the price will have to be lowered. The most important thing is that if you can find a big boss who can collect all the goods in our village at a high price, then I will agree to buy all the goods." Sell ​​it to him."

Guo Yimin was not worried at all about the villagers revolting. Households worth ten thousand yuan appeared on TV and newspapers, but this time the deposit alone was five thousand. Who could guarantee that the entire payment could be settled in one go like Boss Jiang?

The mountains here will be blocked by heavy snow for more than half a month. The villagers have no place to sell. Every household has gone into the mountains to search. How much can they sell in the town? It's not troublesome enough to drag them to the city, how could it be easier for him to sell them all?

"Then what do you mean? They won't increase the price? Then we don't want to."

Seeing everyone's impatience, Guo Yimin knocked on the table and said: "Don't worry, you all. I sent a telegram to the capital earlier and made an appointment to have a phone call at noon tomorrow. I will try to increase the purchase price. Someone mentioned it to me before, I have been thinking about this. I am the party secretary of the village, but my family, like everyone else, has to rely on the land in the village for a living. If you don’t come to me and poke my spine, I will have to talk to the boss over there. .”

"Okay, I know your reason for coming. The results will be available tomorrow. Once the results are available, a meeting will be notified."

Guo Yimin has calculated that the amount of goods collected this year is more than four times that of last year. They have plundered all the low mountains around the village. In order to make money, they also go into the mountains in groups to crack pine nuts with forks. Fortunately, the fruits of these things growing on the mountains will continue to bear next year even if they are all picked this year.

He thought to himself that if Boss Jiang wants to continue doing business, he has to collect and deliver goods. No one likes to increase costs, but the situation in their village requires price increases. For Boss Jiang, he can only do a good job. said.