Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 414 Grain Station Opening

Before the Lantern Festival, Xu Qing found a shop on the street, negotiated the price, and successfully signed the contract, taking the first step towards self-reliance.

The shop is near the Dongdan Vegetable Market, with dense crowds, and the location is quite good.

However, it still took a lot of effort to successfully rent it, and it has just been re-opened. When it comes to independent operation, everyone is emotionally resistant and looks at it with colored eyes.

Especially since the store is in the hands of the Dongdan Vegetable Market Management Association, not an individual, it is very cumbersome to negotiate.

All kinds of stamped certificates are insufficient.

Fortunately, Xu Qing had a good resume. He was born well and had a good family background. He had also been the director of the fifth branch of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. He also had a college education, so he was not questioned too much.

Otherwise, according to the wishes of the Dongdan Vegetable Market Management Association, the street office of the courtyard where Xu Qing lives must issue a certificate proving his good conduct, for fear of being a lawless element.

After the shop was rented, Xu Qing took his second brother and third brother, and the three brothers cleaned it up.

As for what to do, Xu Qing has already decided on opening a grain station.

As for the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Xu Qing had already said hello through Erniu, who worked in the Second Commercial Bureau.

The business license was also obtained, and the rest of the procedures were completed at once.

From now on, Xu Qing only needs to go to the countryside to purchase grain from various communes.

In fact, opening a grain station these days requires a lot of pressure.

After all, this is related to people's livelihood. To open a grain station, the price must be approved by the Price Bureau.

Grain cannot be adulterated. Once discovered, it will not be a fine for future generations, but it will be shut down and banned.

However, given that Xu Qing has a good style and has been published in newspapers twice, there is no stain on his reputation and credibility.

Only then can you open a grain station in your own name.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to open a grain station.

In addition to the problem of being able to open a grain station in the city.

The bigger problem is that grain stations have to collect grain.

However, in rural communes, various crops such as wheat and corn harvested every year are uniformly handed over to the state and designated institutions.

Xu Qing still needs to find a way to overcome this problem and obtain a designated quota recognized by the state for his grain station.

Now that he has decided to start this business, he must not just wait for the country to provide his grain station with ready-ground white flour and corn noodles as needed.

In that case, his grain station would be no different from state-owned stores and supply and marketing cooperatives.

Might as well just stay away.

Therefore, Xu Qing inevitably had to run around and do some activities.

Try to get the qualification to purchase grain from the commune.

And this is not too rare for Xu Qing.

Old classmates from high school, in addition to Erniu, who are close friends, are also Li Guohua.

Li Guohua is now the director of the government agency in Sijiu City.

When he was transferred from the county seat to Sijiu City, he was just a section chief.

Over the years, I have been promoted again.

Xu Qing wanted to open a grain station, and Li Guohua took the initiative to help run it without saying a word.

What else could it mean to have a deep friendship since high school?

Therefore, under the coordination of Li Guohua, Xu Qing's grain station had already obtained approval to purchase crops from various communes before it opened.

When Li Guohua rode a bicycle with a black briefcase under his arm, he delivered the approval document to the compound and handed it to Xu Qinghou.

Xu Qing asked Aunt Feng, the nanny who had returned after the New Year, to cook four dishes to go with the wine, and then sat in the room and drank with Li Guohua.

"Qingzi, I got the approval document for the grain station. If you need anything else from me, just ask. As long as I can do it, it won't be a big deal!"

Xu Qing picked up the wine cup, walked away from Li Guohua, and said with a smile:
"It's okay for the moment. The country has just reopened. I'll set up the grain station first. I'll talk about the rest later."

Li Guohua is now the director. He is very stylish and even smokes. He is dressed in a uniform that makes him look very smart and capable.

"Qingzi, it would be shameful for you to try to cheat on our brother-in-law relationship. If you choose to go into business, you must support me!"
By the way, Erniu helped you get the business license, right? "

As Li Guohua spoke, he reached out and took out Huazi from his body, handed one to Xu Qing, and then said:

"Er Niu was a bit slow in doing things and didn't have much courage. He went to the Second Commercial Bureau as soon as he graduated. He was finally promoted to section chief the year before last. If it were me, I would have secured the position of director of the Second Commercial Bureau."

Xu Qing smiled and nodded: "That's right. Er Niu is naturally timid and too honest. Being an official is indeed a bit difficult."

Li Guohua hummed and said, "Oh, no tricks. Er Niu has such an awesome temperament and knows how to work hard. Qingzi, I'm not telling you that he may not be able to reach the top position of the Second Commercial Bureau in another ten years." "

Xu Qing was speechless after listening to Li Guohua's words.

Li Guohua did not continue, but changed his words and said:

"Qingzi, what has Jiefang been busy with recently? I haven't seen him for a long time. I heard from Erniu that Jiefang's wife is pregnant again."

Xu Qing smoked the cigarette and said, "Yes, it frees my wife's new body. The afternoon before yesterday, my wife and I took the time to go over to his place and walk around."

Li Guohua made a sound, picked up the wine cup, walked away from Xu Qing, smashed it and said:

"Qingzi, you don't know that back then Er Niu and Jiefang the three of us dealt with that kid Liu Toad.

In fact, Jiefang shouldn't take the blame on him alone. The school said it was very serious at that time, but I have been thinking that the school shouldn't punish us for trivial things like fighting. After all, there was no trouble. . "

Li Guohua puffed out the smoke from his mouth, paused, and continued:

"Qingzi, look, if the three of us had finished high school and gone to college together, we wouldn't have been still working as section chiefs at the No. [-] Red Star Steel Rolling Plant until now.

At the very least, they are similar to me and Erniu, so there is no need to work in a factory. "

Xu Qing was not in a hurry to speak, smoking a cigarette and continuing to listen to Li Guohua.

"But having said that, Qingzi, you and I went to university for further studies a few years before the liberation. We really didn't catch up with the good times. If it had been a year earlier and the country hadn't decided where to let your batch of college students go back and forth, maybe you and the liberation , and can be reassigned to good jobs like Er Niu and I."

After drinking, Li Guohua opened his chatterbox and talked non-stop.

Xu Qing doesn’t mind, brothers and sisters, let’s talk freely.

Whether they were talking over drinks or not, Xu Qing listened to them all.

There were not many people in the compound at noon. Those who were supposed to go to work went to work and did not come back.

Lunch at school is also eaten in the school cafeteria.

After Xu Qing drank with Li Guohua for more than an hour, seeing that it was almost 01:30, he turned around and made a tea vat of hot tea to help Li Guohua sober up.

Today is not the weekend, Li Guohua has to go back to work later.

Xu Qing has nothing to do. He has received the approval and is getting busy. It will take some time.

In the eyes of others, Xu Qing's job of opening a grain depot and getting approval documents seemed like he had to work hard to keep the fire going, running up and down, and constantly doing various things. Everything that couldn't be done in a year or two was done by Xu Qing even in the first month of the year.

Not to mention everyone in the compound found it unbelievable, even the neighbors in the nearby alleys found it unbelievable.

They had just heard that Xu Qing had not been the director of the fifth factory, and they had just come back to their senses after the New Year. Then they heard that Xu Qing had set up a grain station, and they were shocked and dumbfounded.

In this case, Xu Qing actually only used his own connections.

The second brother was not allowed to ask his father-in-law for help.

Xu Aiguo's father-in-law is a teacher, not to mention his connections and connections.

A phone call and a letter of introduction can be done in minutes.However, Xu Qing felt that it was not necessary at all.

Why ask the second brother to ask his father-in-law for something he can handle on his own?

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Xu Qing put all the plaques and counters he had hired for the grain station into the rented shop.

25 Throughout the day, Xu Qing received another [-] kilograms of white noodles and [-] kilograms of stick noodles trucked to his store by the state.

Mung beans, millet, red beans, and rice are also five hundred catties each.

In total, [-] kilograms of grain.

These were put on his side by the state and asked him to sell them on his behalf without asking for a penny of grain payment. When the sales were completed, the state would send people over to collect the money.

It can be regarded as support for Xu Qing's personal grain station.

At the same time, the grain station in Xuqing was also used to encourage the general public to respond to the call for reopening.

As for profits, Xu Qing is responsible for his own profits and losses.

If it were anyone else, it would be impossible to open a grain station at this time even if they were killed.

Spring has just begun, and this year's crops, except for wheat, have not been sown yet, so there is no way to harvest any grain in the countryside.

For more than half a year, we relied on the state to transport food. To put it bluntly, in the first half of the year, we did not want to make money.

Food is also sold in state-owned stores and department stores in Sijiucheng.

Xu Qing's personal grain station has little hope of making money in anyone's eyes.

But Xu Qing has the ability to split into two, which is different.

Xu Qing's [-] kilograms of grain became [-] kilograms.

Just sell it at the price of grain in state-owned stores and earn three cents per pound.

Just from this batch of grain, Xu Qing can earn a considerable income without paying the payment to the state.

Xu Qing set the opening time on the last weekend of the month.

That is the 29th of the first lunar month, four days later.

In the grain station, the food is available, and all necessary items are ready.

In the blink of an eye, it’s the morning of the 29th.

As soon as the sky dawned, Xu Qing got up with his wife Jinghong, his second brother Aiguo, his younger sister Xiaoya, and his younger sister-in-law Aiqian. The whole family had breakfast at around eight o'clock and hurried towards their shop in Dongdan.

Before Xu Qinglin left the compound, he said hello to everyone in the compound and asked them to remember to go to the grain station he opened in the morning, both to cheer him up and to remember to buy grain.

Xu Qing opened today, and the price of a pound of grain is two cents cheaper than in state-owned stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, etc. This is a way to get some luck.

Everyone in the courtyard was naturally filled with joy and promised to arrive on time.

It was around ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, the sky was blue and white clouds were white, it was a perfect day.

Xu Qing took his younger brothers and sisters, his sisters-in-law Liu Aiqian and Tang Xiujuan, Ma Jiefang, Wu Yuemei, his father-in-law and mother-in-law, to greet everyone from the Dongdan Vegetable Market Management Association, as well as the branch directors of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant.

Although Xu Qing is no longer the director of the fifth factory, when he was the director for the past two years, he got along quite well with the directors of several other branch factories.

In addition, Aiguo took over the top position of his fifth factory.

How could several branch directors of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill not come?
In addition, several leaders from the municipal government agencies in Forty-Nine City also came.

Among them are both director Li Guohua and the leader of the Second Commercial Bureau where Erniu works.

Erniu is naturally there too.

When Xu Qing Grain Station opened, how could he not come to support it?

At the same time, reporters from newspapers and magazines came to interview.

This is the first personal food station in Sijiu City, and all walks of life naturally attach great importance and attention to it.

As the festive firecrackers went off, several leaders of the municipal government cut the ribbon and took off the red cloth on the plaque of the grain station.

And this also opened the red cloth for the country to officially move from a planned economy to a market economy.

As soon as the ribbon-cutting opening ceremony was over, the onlookers all cheered and poured into Xu Qing's grain station.

In an instant, the quite spacious grain station was surrounded by water.

Neighbors who lived in the same compound as Xu Qing were even more crowded in the crowd, holding food stamps and money, scrambling to buy them.

In one day, more than 3000 kilograms of white noodles and stick noodles were sold at Xu Qingliang Station.

This is mainly due to the fact that everyone has a quota to purchase grain. Many people do not have food stamps and cannot buy them even if they want to.

The next day, the newspaper published the news of the opening of Xu Qing's personal grain station.

Some citizens from Sijiucheng who were far away from Dongdan flocked here in droves.

There is one more place to buy food in the city. There is no need to always go to state-owned stores, department stores, or supply and marketing cooperatives to grab it.

Moreover, Xu Qing’s grain station just opened yesterday and is fully stocked, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to buy it.

Xu Qing sold five thousand kilograms of grain for two consecutive days.

Mainly white noodles and stick noodles.

Before closing the store in the evening, Xu Qing took inventory and found that there were [-] jins of white noodles left and nearly [-] jins of stick noodles sold.

Mung beans, millet, rice, red beans, barely moved.

After all, white flour and stick noodles are the staple food, and Xu Qing expected that the sales were good.

A week later, there were [-] kilograms of grain in Xu Qing Grain Station.

There is less than [-] jins of stick noodles left and [-] jins of white noodles.

Mung beans, millet, and rice were sold for three to five hundred catties each.

Red beans require fewer people, so they only sold [-] kilograms.

After that, there were not as many people coming to buy food as when we first opened.

But there is still a steady stream of people coming.

Xu Qing chose the grain station near the vegetable market. The location is advantageous. People who pass by while shopping for vegetables will come in and visit more or less.

A month later, the white noodles and stick noodles at Xuqing Grain Station were sold out.

The state sent people to deliver another [-] kilograms of grain.

This time it’s mainly white noodles and stick noodles.

As for the last payment of [-] kilograms, Xu Qing paid every penny.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Xu Qing was alone in the store. After using his abilities to divide the [-] kilograms that had just been transported during the day, he closed the door and locked it. Then he left on his bicycle and walked along the continuously renovated streets towards the store. Go back to your own compound.

He was happy in his heart. He made a lot of money from the last batch of food, but he was so busy that he never had time to do a detailed calculation.

It closed early today, so Xu Qing planned to go back and do some calculations in the house after dinner.

In fact, Xu Qing probably had a good idea about the last batch of [-] kilograms of grain.

After his ability was tested, he gained [-] catties in vain.

As for the more than 1 kilograms gained in vain, throw away the millet that was not sold much.

Just white noodles and stick noodles are a lot of money!
(End of this chapter)